Current agent-oriented methodologies focus mainly on multi-agent systems analysis and design, but without providing straightforward connections to the implementation of such system...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
We present here the execution model of a policy-driven middleware for building secure distributed collaboration systems from their high level specifications. Our specification m...
Anand R. Tripathi, Tanvir Ahmed, Richa Kumar, Shre...
We present an approach to estimate the poses of human heads in natural scenes. The essential features for estimating the head pose are the positions of the prominent facial featur...
Search and recommendation systems must include contextual information to effectively model users’ interests. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the effectiveness of...