Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are quickly becoming the de facto standard for interactive web applications on the Internet, featuring rich interfaces that increase user usabilit...
Abstract. Whilst Web services can be composed by technical developers using a language such as BPEL, there is no easy way for non-technical end users to take advantage of these ser...
Ad hoc networks are exposed more than traditional networks to security threats due to their mobility and open architecture aspects. In addition, any dysfunction due to badly congu...
In order to build an intelligent system that allows human beings to cooperate with a computing machine to perform a given task it is important to account for the individual charact...
Abstract This paper attempts to define an emotional model for virtual agents that behave autonomously in social worlds. We adopt shallow modeling based on the decomposition of the...