The shadow agent is a new type of intelligent virtual agent exploiting the metaphor of the shadow as a medium. The core of the shadow agent is a behavioral architecture inspired b...
Philippe Pasquier, Eunjung Han, Kirak Kim, Keechul...
as a tree which specifies the presentation in an abstract, machineindependent way. This specification is created and edited using an authoring system; it is mapped to a particula...
Guido van Rossum, Jack Jansen, K. Sjoerd Mullender...
ating Structures is a system abstraction that helps to model large-scale distributed systems, whose performance mostly depends on how well the data and messages traffic is organiz...
Subtle implementation errors or mis-configurations in complex Internet services may lead to performance degradations without causing failures. These undiscovered performance anomal...
Christopher Stewart, Kai Shen, Arun Iyengar, Jian ...
There is an emergence of cloud application platforms such as Microsoft’s Azure, Google’s App Engine and Amazon’s EC2/SimpleDB/S3. Startups and Enterprise alike, lured by the...