A widely used computational model for constructing fault-tolerant distributed applications employs atomic transactions for controlling operations on persistent objects. There has ...
In human face-to-face interaction, participants can rely on a number of audio-visual information for interpreting interlocutors' communicative intentions, such information st...
: Cooperative communications have been demonstrated to be effective in combating the multiple fading effects in wireless networks, and improving the network performance in terms of...
Xuedong Liang, Min Chen, Yang Xiao, Ilangko Balasi...
Networks of sensors and simulation models of the physical environment have been implemented separately, often using agent-based methodologies. Some work has been done in providing...
Responsive environments are physical surroundings whose components change their behaviour to accommodate the presence of people as well as other components. We describe a means to ...