Talking virtual characters are graphical simulations of real or imaginary persons capable of human-like behaviour, most importantly talking and gesturing. Coupled with artificial ...
With dramatic improvements in cost-performance, the use of clusters of personal computers is fast becoming widespread. For ease of use and management, a Single System Image (SSI) ...
This paper addresses the problem of scatternet formation and maintenance for multi-hop Bluetooth based personal area and ad hoc networks with minimal communication overhead. Each ...
In this paper we present our vision of the Internet Enterprise: a highly interoperable, virtual enterprise infrastructure for individuals, small businesses, and large corporations...
Abdelsalam Helal, Stanley Y. W. Su, Jie Meng, Raja...
We address the problem of privacy-preserving access control in distributed systems. Users commonly reveal more personal data than strictly necessary to be granted access to online...