Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) are becoming the prevalent approach for realizing modern services and systems. SOA offers superior support for autonomy (decoupling) and heter...
William Vambenepe, Carol Thompson, Vanish Talwar, ...
Distributed applications must often consider and select the appropriate trade-offs among three important aspects ? fault-tolerance, performance and resources. We introduce a novel ...
Advances in server, network, and storage virtualization are enabling the creation of resource pools of servers that permit multiple application workloads to share each server in t...
Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Alf...
We present an extended framework for modelling agent-object interactions in virtual environments. Our framework is based on the concept of Smart Objects and provides agents with p...
Christopher Peters, Simon Dobbyn, Brian MacNamee, ...
Head pose and gesture offer several conversational grounding cues and are used extensively in face-to-face interaction among people. To recognize visual feedback efficiently, hum...
Louis-Philippe Morency, Candace L. Sidner, Christo...