Social insects provide us with a powerful metaphor to create decentralized systems of simple interacting, and often mobile, agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social i...
Eric Bonabeau, Andrej Sobkowski, Guy Theraulaz, Je...
Many clinical examinations involve palpation and part of the diagnostic process depends on the application of pressure. Teaching and learning such skills is difficult especially fo...
Sarah Baillie, Andrew Crossan, Neil Forrest, Steph...
: The accelerated development in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Grid computing has positioned them as promising next generation computing platforms. They enable the creation of Virtual Ent...
Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, Jonathan Giddy, He...
: Although avatars may resemble communicative interface agents, they have for the most part not profited from recent research into autonomous embodied conversational systems. In pa...
Much of a computer’s value depends on how well it interacts with networks. To enhance this value, designers must improve the performance of networks delivered to users. Fortunat...