The perceived realism of a computer generated image depends on the accuracy of the modeling and illumination calculations, the limitations of the display device, and the way in wh...
Internet streaming applications are affected by adverse network conditions such as high packet loss rates and long delays. This paper aims at mitigating such effects by leveraging...
Abstract—Interactive TCP applications, such as Telnet and the Web, are particularly sensitive to network congestion. Indeed, congestion-induced queuing and packet loss can be a s...
This paper promotes social role awareness as a desirable capability of animated agents, that are by now strong affective reasoners, but otherwise often lack the social competence ...
In the last decade, researchers have devoted increasing efforts to reduce the average power consumption in VLSI systems during normal operation mode, while power consumption durin...