– Wireless mobile access to the Internet is an indispensable tool for private and corporate users alike; but both industry and academia recognize the need for better service. Imp...
Talking virtual characters are graphical simulations of real or imaginary persons capable of human-like behaviour, most importantly talking and gesturing. Coupled with artificial ...
Web-database systems are nowadays an integral part of everybody's life, with applications ranging from monitoring/trading stock portfolios, to personalized blog aggregation a...
Integration systems typically support only a restricted set of queries over the schema they export. The reason is that the participating information sources contribute limited con...
This work compares and contrasts two component frameworks: (1) the web-centric Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework and (2) the FIPA-compliant multi-agent system (MAS). FIPA...