Recent work in behavioral animation has taken impressive steps towards a virtual human. As for intelligent virtual agents, abbreviated "IVAs", the behaviors displayed in ...
This paper presents an energy-conservation method for multiple disks and their cache memory. Our method periodically resizes the cache memory and controls the rotation speeds unde...
Safe programming languages encourage the development of dynamically extensible systems, such as extensible Web servers and mobile agent platforms. Although protection is of utmost...
The need to merge different versions of an object toa common state arises in collaborative computing due to several reasons including optimistic concurrency control, asynchronous ...
We argue that joint administration of access policies for a dynamic coalition formed by autonomous domains requires that these domains set up a coalition authority that distribute...