— People play games for fun. Yet we are lacking a fundamental understanding of what fun is and how fun works in games and other media. For example, why do thousands of people spe...
A distributed system is commonly modelled by a graph where nodes represent processors and there is an edge between two processors if and only if they can communicate directly. In ...
This paper reports the results of a laboratory study of a proposed solution to the problem of coordinating entry into collaborative activity while protecting the privacy and contr...
Memory size reduction and memory accesses optimization are crucial issues for embedded systems. In the context of affine programs, these two challenges are classically tackled by ...
Spyware, Adware, Bots. In each case, there is significant evidence that there is an increasing financial motivation behind the writing and distribution of these programs. In thi...