In this paper, we analyse how autonomic resource management can be achieved within a system that lacks centralized information about current system demand and the state of system ...
Mariusz Jacyno, Seth Bullock, Terry R. Payne, Nick...
Collaborative Systems support user groups enabling a shared environment and informing of its state and changes through a mechanism called awareness. We believe that these changes a...
Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are computer generated life-like characters that interact with human users in face-to-face conversations. To achieve natural multi-modal conve...
Hung-Hsuan Huang, Tsuyoshi Masuda, Aleksandra Cere...
The emerging field of mobile computing (MC) studies systems in which computational components may change locations. In terms of hardware, mobile work is usually across heterogene...
Computer systems increasingly carry out tasks in mixed networks, that is in group settings in which they interact both with other computer systems and with people. Participants in...
Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Sarit Kraus, Avi Pf...