This article deals with TakTuk, a middleware that deploys efficiently parallel remote executions on large scale grids (thousands of nodes). This tool is mostly intended for intera...
Embodied conversational agents are required to be able to express themselves convincingly and autonomously. Based on an empirial study on spatial descriptions of landmarks in dire...
Model-based program debugging exploits discrepancies between the program behavior anticipated by a programmer and the program’s actual behavior when executed on a set of inputs....
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...
Architectural advances of modern systems has often been at odds with control complexity, requiring significant effort in both design and verification. This is particularly true ...