Object composition is often advocated as a more flexible alternative to standard class inheritance since it takes place at run-time, thus permitting the behavior of objects to be ...
In this paper we address an issue common in the frame of WWW, namely information entities that present di erent facets under di erent contexts (or worlds). Handling such multifacet...
We describe the architecture of an interactive, “believable” agent with personality, called user agent, which can act on behalf of a user in various multi-user game contexts, w...
Giotto is a principled, tool-supported design methodology for implementing embedded control systems on platforms of possibly distributed sensors, actuators, CPUs, and networks. Gio...
Thomas A. Henzinger, Benjamin Horowitz, Christoph ...
This paper provides a performance evaluation of the TETRAPOL random access protocol. The results are based on a Markovian model which is also presented. The Markovian model is use...