Next-generation immersive virtual environments and video games will require virtual agents with human-like visual attention and gaze behaviors. A critical step is to devise effic...
The World Wide Web has transformed itself in the last few years from a simple state-less multimedia platform to a global distributed processing environment. As Web computing gains...
The home environment becomes ready to host distributed devices dynamically adapting to service availability and reacting to user location and user activity. Sensors, high definiti...
Government bureaucracies are both extremely complex and long-lived, constantly evolving to reflect and influence their ever changing cultural and physical environments. Software s...
Software Transactional Memories (STMs) are emerging as a highly attractive programming model, thanks to their ability to mask concurrency management issues to the overlying applic...
Roberto Palmieri, Francesco Quaglia, Paolo Romano,...