With the emergence of computer networks as one of the primary platforms of communication, and with their adoption for an increasingly broad range of applications, there is a growing need for high-quality network traffic ...

Can a robot understand a human's social behavior? Moreover, how should a robot act in response to a human's behavior? If the goals of artificial intelligence are to understand, imitate, and interact with human level ...

With rapid growth in computer hardware technologies and architectures, software programs have become increasingly complex and error-prone. This software complexity has resulted in program crashes and even security threats. ...

The emergence of digital capture and editing technologies make providing a more detailed and coherent description of the experiences depicted in photos possible. Through the combination of photos, music and voice, people ...

Processing and optimizing ad-hoc and continual queries in an open environment with distributed, autonomous, and heterogeneous data servers (e.g., the Internet) pose several technical challenges. First, it is well known ...

Complex networks like the Internet, peer-to-peer systems, and emerging sensor and ad-hoc networks are large distributed decentralized communication systems arising repeatedly in today's technology. In such networks it is ...