Synchronization protocols based on “dead-reckoning” are vulnerable to a popular type of cheat called speed-hack. A speed-hack helps a cheater to gain unfair advantages by essen...
This paper presents a distributed architecture for the management and retrieval of particular objects called POIsmarts. POIsmarts can be considered as the convergence between virt...
Most modern programming systems such as Java allow us to link independently developed components together dynamically. This makes it possible to develop and deploy software on a pe...
In this paper, we describe an on-going project called Concept and Sensor Networks (CSN). The development of this project has been described in past PSMP workshops [1]. The purpose ...
In this paper we propose a computational model for human-agent and agent-agent conversation. This model has two fundamental characteristics: (1) it takes into account the implicit ...