This paper presents the ARTS (Agent-oriented Robust Transactional System) model, which applies transaction concepts to provide agent developers with high-level support for agent s...
This is a discursive paper. That is, it shows some formulas (but only as examples so that the reader may be convinced that there is, perhaps, some substance to our claims), no theo...
In this paper, we present our open source, platform independent toolkit for developing 3D talking agents, namely Xface. It relies on MPEG-4 Face Animation (FA) standard. The toolk...
Model-driven performance prediction methods require detailed design models to evaluate the performance of software systems during early development stages. However, the complexity...
A significant fraction of the software and resource usage of a modern handheld computer is devoted to its graphical user interface (GUI). Moreover, GUIs are direct users of the d...