The WS-BPEL language has recently become a de facto standard for modeling Web-based business processes. One of its essential features is the fully programmable compensation mechan...
The definitions of the basic concepts, rules, and constraints of centering theory involve underspecified notions such as `previous utterance', `realization', and `rankin...
First generation Web-content encodes information in handwritten (HTML) Web pages. Second generation Web content generates HTML pages on demand, e.g. by filling in templates with c...
Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Joost Geurts, Frank Cornel...
In this paper, we discuss scripting tools that aim at facilitating the design of web-based interactions with animated characters capable of affective communication. Specifically, ...
Helmut Prendinger, Sylvain Descamps, Mitsuru Ishiz...
Being a successful technique in software practice, Object Orientation (OO) is a hot topic in academic research fields. Among many formalisms, rCOS, a refinement calculus of obje...
Liang Zhao, Xiangpeng Zhao, Quan Long, Zongyan Qiu