Abstract. Is it possible to treat large scale distributed systems as physical systems? The importance of that question stems from the fact that the behavior of many P2P systems is ...
Although gesture recognition has been studied extensively, communicative, affective, and biometrical “utility” of natural gesticulation remains relatively unexplored. One of t...
The distinction between safety and liveness properties is due to Lamport who gave the following informal characterization. Safety properties assert that nothing bad ever happens w...
Collecting a program’s execution profile is important for many reasons: code optimization, memory layout, program debugging and program comprehension. Path based execution pro...
The growing success of wireless ad hoc networks and portable hardware devices presents many interesting problems to software engineers. Particular, coordination is a challenging t...
Marco Tulio de Oliveira Valente, Fernando Magno Qu...