Nowadays the photo-capturing devices are no longer limited to digital cameras but include mobile phones, PDAs and others. This is leading to a new problem: a very large number of ...
Yuri Almeida Lacerda, Hugo Feitosa de Figueir&ecir...
Location-based ubiquitous computing systems are entering mainstream society and becoming familiar parts of everyday life. However, the settings in which they are deployed are alre...
This paper describes an analysis of benevolent agents in multiagent systems (MAS). We first present a definition and motivation for benevolence that is appropriate for MAS. We the...
We compare two possible mechanisms to manage a peer-to-peer storage system, where participants can store data online on the disks of peers in order to increase data availability an...
This paper describes the personalized normalization of a multilingual chat system that supports chatting in user defined short-forms or abbreviations. One of the major challenges ...