Abstract. In this chapter we survey the most recent proposals for modelling user mobility in mobile pervasive networks, and specifically in opportunistic networks. We identify two...
Language can be viewed as a complex adaptive system which is continuously shaped and reshaped by the actions of its users as they try to solve communicative problems. To maintain c...
Traditional process support systems typically offer a static composition of atomic tasks to more powerful services. In the real world, however, processes change over time: busines...
Most software applications use a relational database for data management and storage. Interaction with such a database is often done by letting the program construct strings with ...
Automatic facial expression analysis is an important aspect of Human Machine Interaction as the face is an important communicative medium. We use our face to signal interest, disa...