Persistent digital media extend content beyond immediate ephemeral interactions and conversations. Systems such as email, instant messaging, digital kiosks, social networking site...
A recurrent question in the design of intelligent agents is how to assign degrees of beliefs, or subjective probabilities, to various events in a relational environment. In the sta...
Information about online presence allows participants of instant messaging (IM) systems to determine whether their prospective communication partners will be able to answer their ...
Karsten Loesing, Markus Dorsch, Martin Grote, Knut...
Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. While there are several authentication mechanisms which support single sign-on (e.g. Kerberos and X.509), it m...
Truly autonomic networks ultimately require self-modifying, evolving protocol software. Otherwise humans must intervene in every situation that has not been anticipated at design t...