In this paper, we describe the development of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) implementing the concept of a companion, i.e. an agent supporting the persistent representatio...
Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Z...
The popularity of Service Oriented Computing (SOC) brings a large number of distributed, well-encapsulated and reusable services all over internet, and makes it possible to create...
Assuring safety in the home network system (HNS) is a crucial issue to guarantee high quality of life. In this position paper, we first review our previous work, formulating three...
Several applications support the adaptation of course material. Even though most of these systems allow to specify interaction preferences or even employ user modeling techniques,...
Two classic categories of models exist for computer networks: network information flow and network of queues. The network information flow model appropriately captures the multi-ho...