Most of the literature on peer-to-peer (P2P) live streaming focuses on how to provide best-effort streaming quality by efficiently using the system bandwidth; however, there is n...
Objects model the world, and state is fundamental to a faithful modeling. Engineers use state machines to understand and reason about state transitions, but programming languages ...
Jonathan Aldrich, Joshua Sunshine, Darpan Saini, Z...
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
We consider the loss in social welfare caused by individual rationality in matching scenarios. We give both theoretical and experimental results comparing stable matchings with soc...
As domain-specific modeling begins to attract widespread acceptance, pressure is increasing for the development of new domainspecific languages. Unfortunately these DSLs typicall...