Computing and telecommunications are maturing, and the next century promises a shift away from technology-driven general-purpose devices. Instead, we will focus on the needs of co...
Mike Esler, Jeffrey Hightower, Thomas E. Anderson,...
Aimed to provide computation ubiquitously, pervasive computing is perceived as a means to provide an user the transparency of anywhere, anyplace, anytime computing. Pervasive comp...
K. Kalapriya, S. K. Nandy, V. Satish, R. Uma Mahes...
Abstract. We present a new approach to the design, development and evaluation of embodied conversational agents (ECAs) that allows them to index identity through culturally and soc...
Web systems suffer from an inability to satisfy heterogeneous needs of many users. A remedy for the negative effects of the traditional "one-size-fits-all'' approac...
Emerging ubiquitous computing leverages the need for automated trust management models. We take a domestic network of both fixed and mobile nodes as our reference scenario and in...