Abstract. Words mean different things to different people, and capturing these differences is often a subtle art. These differences are often “a matter of perspective,” and...
Jason B. Alonso, Catherine Havasi, Henry Lieberman
—Large scale production grids are an important case for autonomic computing. They follow a mutualization paradigm: decision-making (human or automatic) is distributed and largely...
— Social robots face the fundamental challenge of detecting and adapting their behavior to the current social mood. For example, robots that assist teachers in early education mu...
Access modifiers like public and private let the programmer control the accessibility of class members. Restricted accessibility supports encapsulation, i.e., the hiding of impleme...
Newsgroup participants interact with their communities through conversation threads. They may respond to a message to answer a question, debate a topic, support or disagree with a...