This article presents a multi-agent dialogue system. We show how a collection of relatively simple agents is able to treat complex dialogue phenomena and deal successfully with di...
Hugo Pinto, Yorick Wilks, Roberta Catizone, Alexie...
Because biometrics-based authentication offers several advantages face to other authentication methods, it is important that such systems be designed to withstand attacks. Reliabil...
The increasing trend toward complex software systems has highlighted the need to incorporate quality requirements earlier in the development cycle. We propose a new methodology fo...
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a replication scheme to handle Byzantine faults in transaction processing database systems. The scheme compares ...
Ben Vandiver, Hari Balakrishnan, Barbara Liskov, S...
In this paper we present FireWxNet, a multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in rugged wildland fire environments. FireWxNet provides the fire fig...
Carl Hartung, Richard Han, Carl Seielstad, Saxon H...