We report on a case study in the emergence of a lexicon in a group of autonomous distributed agents situated and grounded in an open environment. Because the agents are autonomous,...
Grid computing is emerging as a new infrastructure to provide collaborative and secure resource sharing over multiple geographically distributed organizations. In this scenario, r...
Tania Gomes Ramos, Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves d...
The notion of functional or modular dependency is fundamental to understand the architecture and inner workings of any software system. In this paper, we propose to extend that no...
This work introduces the A system1 , an Internetbased, free and open source electronic voting system which employs strong cryptography. Our system is a fully functiona...
We present “equiveillance” as a conceptual framework for understanding the balance between surveillance and sousveillance. In addition to this conceptual framework we also pre...