— In modern wireless networks the functions included into layer II have to deal with complex problems, such as security and access control, that were previously demanded to upper...
Abstract--The size, heterogeneity and dynamism of the execution platforms of scientific applications, like computational grids, make using those platforms complex. Furthermore, tod...
Programs encounter increasingly complex and fragile mappings to computing platforms, resulting in performance characteristics that are often mysterious to students, practitioners,...
In this paper, we present our open source, platform independent toolkit for developing 3D talking agents, namely Xface. It relies on MPEG-4 Face Animation (FA) standard. The toolk...
Open-source development, social production, social networks and other factors change the way we understand software systems. The paper motivates the use of social thinking to desi...