Empirical studies of the variation in debt ratios across firms have used statistical models singularly to analyze the important determinants of capital structure. Researchers, how...
The simulation of complex layers of folds of cloth can be handled through algorithms which take the physical dynamics into account. In many cases, however, it is sufficient to gen...
The problem of optimal data gathering in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is addressed by means of optimization techniques. The goal of this work is to lay the foundations to devel...
This paper considers two important aspects related to the control plane of Traffic Engineered IP/MPLS networks: the ``flooding reduction'' mechanisms and the evaluation ...
Recent work in behavioral animation has taken impressive steps towards a virtual human. As for intelligent virtual agents, abbreviated "IVAs", the behaviors displayed in ...