Distributed applications are often built from sets of distributed components that must be co-ordinated in order to achieve some global behaviour. The common approach is to use a c...
Synthesis of system configurations from a given set of features is an important and very challenging problem. This paper makes a step towards this goal by describing an efficient ...
Our research on Interactive Drama aims at conciliating interaction and story at the deepest level, the level of action. From a given story representation formalism, a set of eleme...
Web service choreography describes protocols for multiparty collaboration, whereas orchestration focuses on single peers. One key requirement of choreography is to support transact...
Hidden Markov models hmms and partially observable Markov decision processes pomdps provide useful tools for modeling dynamical systems. They are particularly useful for represent...