A modern server system must deliver a complex set of obligations towards its users. We study the concept of roles as autonomous encapsulations of a set of promises. Using virtuali...
A world model for ubiquitous computing environments is presented. It can be dynamically organized like a tree based on geographical containment, such as in a user-room-floor-build...
Abstract. Prepay usage as a percentage of overall mobile phone access has increased sharply over the past several years. However, the recharging process is still largely manual wit...
J. Burgett, S. Hussain, Catholijn M. Jonker, A. Ra...
In this paper we develop a language of mobile agents called uPLAN for describing the capabilities of active (programmable) networks. We use a formal semantics for uPLAN to demonst...
We propose a method to recognize the `social attitude' of users towards an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) from a combination of linguistic and prosodic features. After de...
Fiorella de Rosis, Anton Batliner, Nicole Novielli...