Computer systems increasingly carry out tasks in mixed networks, that is in group settings in which they interact both with other computer systems and with people. Participants in...
Ya'akov Gal, Barbara J. Grosz, Sarit Kraus, Avi Pf...
Many software systems would significantly improve performance if they could interpret the nonverbal cues in their user’s interactions as humans normally do. Currently, Intellige...
Heap size has a huge impact on the performance of garbage collected applications. A heap that barely meets the application’s needs causes excessive GC overhead, while a heap tha...
Ting Yang, Matthew Hertz, Emery D. Berger, Scott F...
As wide-area open networks like the Internet and intranets grow larger, mobile agent technology is attracting more attention. Mobile agents are units of software that can deal wit...
Unique and challenging security problems arise due to the scarcity of computational, storage, and power resources in the low-cost pervasive computing environment. Particularly rel...