This paper presents a middleware infrastructure for integration of heterogeneous embedded devices in ubiquitous computing environments. The proposed infrastructure employs the Dev...
: We present an extension of the programming-by-contract (PBC) paradigm to a concurrent and distributed environment. Classical PBC is characterized by absolute conformance of code ...
Anders Starcke Henriksen, Tom Hvitved, Andrzej Fil...
Abstract. Conversational agents interact with users using natural language interface. Especially in Internet space, their role has been recently highlighted as a virtual representa...
In this paper, we present an integrated system for skin deformation that is able to handle deformations due to both the skeleton animation and collisions. This method is based on ...
One important implication of embodiment is that, by acting, agents partially determine the sensory patterns they receive from the environment. The motor actions performed by an age...