In this paper, we develop a robust bit-plane watermarking technique based on zerotree coding. A robust watermark is an imperceptible but indelible code that can be used for owners...
Distributed Computing, the exploitation of idle cycles on pervasive desktop PC systems offers the opportunity to increase the available computing power by orders of magnitude (10x...
The research community is struggling with the right approach to integrate emerging agent technology with the exploding web page-based Internet. This paper presents the approach us...
In this paper we will discuss different types of control over synthetic characters in interactive stories. We will argue that, to attain a deeper and more engaging control, in ce...
We present a framework that enables a belief-desire-intention (BDI) agent to dynamically choose its intention reconsideration policy in order to perform optimally in accordance wi...