We think that Massively Multi-user Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) will soon evolve into Online Societies of political and economic interest. Studying them will require a metho...
Most foundational models for global computing have focused on the spatial dimension of computations, however global computing requires also new ways of thinking about the temporal ...
Gian Luigi Ferrari, Eugenio Moggi, Rosario Puglies...
A significant number of new Java-based technologies for mobile code (aka agents) have recently emerged. The 'Aglets' system, from IBM's research labs, provides an e...
Human-robot interaction has been identified as one of the major open research directions in mobile robotics. This paper considers a specific type of interaction: short-term and sp...
Jamieson Schulte, Charles R. Rosenberg, Sebastian ...
The Internet and the World Wide Web provide a global virtual marketplace. However, there is little information about the behavior of e-commerce users worldwide. The goal of the pa...
Virgilio Almeida, Wagner Meira Jr., Victor F. Ribe...