Chief information officers (CIOs) have the difficult job of running a function that uses a lot of resources but offers little measurable evidence of its value. Line managers are i...
In a multi-agent system, agents must decide what to do and by what order. Autonomy is a key notion in such a system, since it is mainly the autonomy of the agents that makes the en...
The data distribution problem is very complex, because it involves trade-offdecisions between minimizing communication and maximizing parallelism. A common approach towards solving...
In this paper, we describe a new multi-purpose audio-visual database on the context of speech interfaces for controlling household electronic devices. The database comprises speec...
Data-driven Web services, viewed broadly as interactive systems available on the Web for users and programs, provide the backbone for increasingly complex Web applications. While ...