MMWN is a modular system of link- and network-layer algorithms that enables a multihop mobile wireless network to support distributed, real-time multimedia applications. In this pa...
In this paper, we report the results of a pilot study designed to evaluate the impact of signs as navigation aids in virtual worlds. Test subjects were divided into three groups (...
We discuss aspects of inlining of virtual method invocations. First, we introduce a new method test to guard inlinings of such invocations, with a di erent set of tradeo s from the...
Gaining the code re-use advantages of object oriented programming requires dynamic function binding, which allows a new subclass to override a function of a superclass. Dynamic bi...
Virtual worlds are developing rapidly over the internet. They are visited by avatars and staffed with Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). An avatar is a representation of a phys...