Contracts in the real world often rest upon a notion of responsibility, by which parties commit to the fulfilment of particular imperatives embedded in the contract. Responsibili...
Martin J. Kollingbaum, Timothy J. Norman, Chris Re...
Pervasive computing environments add a multitude of additional devices to our current computing landscapes. Specialized embedded systems provide sensor information about the real ...
Christian Becker, Gregor Schiele, Holger Gubbels, ...
Abstract During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfac...
Context-aware middleware encompasses uniform ions and reliable services for common operations, supports for most of the tasks involved in dealing with context, and thus simplifyin...
Hung Quoc Ngo, Anjum Shehzad, Kim Anh Pham Ngoc, S...
Recently, social text streams (e.g., blogs, web forums, and emails) have become ubiquitous with the evolution of the web. In some sense, social text streams are sensors of the rea...