The rules of "Bulgarian solitaire" are considered as an operation on the set of partitions to induce a finite dynamical system. We focus on partitions with no preimage u...
Maximum likelihood estimators are often of limited practical use due to the intensive computation they require. We propose a family of alternative estimators that maximize a stoch...
In the context of Service Oriented Computing behavioural contracts are descriptions of the observable message-passing behaviour of services. In other terms, contracts are behaviour...
A major advantage offered by Web services technologies is the ability to dynamically discover and invoke services. This ability is particularly important for operations of many ap...
Arun Mukhija, Andrew Dingwall-Smith, David S. Rose...
This paper proposes an alternative paradigm for building affective competencies in embodied conversational agents (ECAs). The key feature of this approach -- and the reason for ref...