Prior research into embodied interface agents has found that users like them and find them engaging. In this paper, we argue that embodiment can serve an even stronger function if...
Justine Cassell, Timothy W. Bickmore, Hannes H&oum...
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become the preferred methodology to build complex enterprise applications. Inside an enterprise, an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) has emerged...
Abstract. Exception specifications can aid in the tasks of writing correct exception handlers and understanding exceptional control flow, but current exception specification system...
Standards for distribution middleware sometimes impose restrictions and often allow the implementations to decide on aspects that are fundamental to the correct and efficient behav...
The Scenario-based Engineering Process (SEP)is a novel approachto developingcomplexsystems.SEPbuilds newapplication systemsthrougha selectionprocessthat groupsprimitive components...