Abstract. This paper presents a statistical framework based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for discovering the contextual factors which most strongly influence user behavio...
—Virtual Human (VH) creation aims to provide virtual characters with realistic behavior, which implies endowing them with autonomy in an inhabited virtual environment. Autonomous...
Guanxi is a type of dyadic social interaction based on feelings ("qing") and trust ("xin"). Long studied by scholars of Chinese origin, it has recently drawn t...
Nowadays, most important topic about internet banking is security. Banks’ basic concern is ensuring their customers’ electronic transactions. Nevertheless, fraudsters are beco...
Scenarios are powerful tools to model and analyze software systems. However, since they do not provide a complete description of the system, but just some possible execution paths,...