Groupware and collaborative tools have been proposed to support cooperative work.
However, they suffer from some rather severe limitations. Alternatively, multi-agent systems …

The increasing importance of technology foresight has simultaneously raised the
significance of methods that determine crucial areas and technologies. However, qualitative …

This article deals with liveness detection for biometric security systems which are based on
fingerprint recognition. The article gives a global overview of known methods. At the end …

Abstract Knowledge management is a crucial aspect for enterprises that want to effectively
cope with business innovation. However, the full control of the knowledge asset is often …

Building application domain models is a time-consuming activity in software engineering. In
small teams, it is an activity that involves almost all participants, including developers and …

Most CSCW and groupware systems focus the activities of distributed teams involved in
large projects by means of tools for communication and awareness. The activities of small …

Intelligent agent-based assistants are systems that try to simplify peoples work based on
computers. Recent research on intelligent assistance has presented significant results in …

During the software development cycle, artifacts (source-code, documentation, user
manuals, etc.) are written, most of them, cooperatively. Each participant in a software …

In this paper, we discuss the construction of dialogs for Personal Assistant Agents that are in
charge of the interface between users and a Multi-Agent System. Such a system aims at …

We have been using personal assistants (PA) coupled with multi-agent systems (MASs) in
several CSCW applications. Since we are considering professional environments, where …