Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are composed of a distributed collection of peers that cooperate in order to perform some common task. Though P2P applications have attrac...
The main objective of the CORAS project is to provide methods and tools for precise, unambiguous, and efficient risk assessment of security critical systems. To this end, we advoc...
A model was introduced in [Fraga97] for integrating replication techniques in heterogeneous systems. The model adopts a reflective structure based on the meta-object approach [10]...
Lau Cheuk Lung, Joni da Silva Fraga, Carlos Mazier...
Networked multimedia applications, such as videoconferencing, offer great communicative opportunities. Since the financial cost of using such a service increases in line with the q...