Adaptation to changing environmental conditions is a major challenge for most distributed applications. The service-oriented programming paradigm leads to an increasing number of ...
This paper gives an overview of facial animation techniques. While facial animation is currently used in the entertainment and advertisement industry, it will become part of dialog...
In pervasive computing environments, applications find themselves in constantly changing operating conditions. Such applications often need to discover locally available resources ...
Online personal advertisements have recently become an easy, socially acceptable way to meet partners for dates or relationships. Because popular personals systems not only reflec...
: We study the design of mechanisms in combinatorial auction domains. We focus on settings where the auction is repeated, motivated by auctions for licenses or advertising space. W...