: Performance is an extra-functional property of software systems which is often critical for achieving sufficient scalability or efficient resource utilisation. As many applicatio...
In this paper, we present our open source, platform independent toolkit for developing 3D talking agents, namely Xface. It relies on MPEG-4 Face Animation (FA) standard. The toolk...
Abstract In future, parallel and distributed computing paradigms will replace nowadays predominant sequential and centralized ones. Facing the challenge to support the construction...
Large-scale distributed systems, such as e-healthcare systems, are difficult to develop due to their complex and decentralized nature. The Service Oriented Architecture facilitat...
Firat Kart, Gengxin Miao, Louise E. Moser, P. M. M...
As SAT becomes more popular due to its ability to handle large real-world problems, progress in efficiency appears to have slowed down over the past few years. On the other hand, w...