infonet-economy

La thèse vérifie l'hypothèse suivante: dans l'Europe de l'après-guerre froide, les intérêts géopolitiques des Etats - incluant des préoccupations aussi bien économiques, culturelles, historiques, politiques que sécuritaires - continuent à inciter les Etats à former des sphères d'influence. Se basant sur les hypothèses néo-réalistes, la thèse démontre que les Etats...

Traditionally a core aspect of state sovereignty, immigration control has first moved upwards to the intergovernmental sphere. It has then been brought closer to supranational governance, and is now gradually moving outwards towards the realm of EU foreign relations. This article interprets this move as the continuation of established patterns of transgovernmental cooperation in an...

Expressive facial animation synthesis of human like characters has had many approacheswith good results. MPEG-4 standard has functioned as the basis of many of thoseapproaches. In this paper we would like to lay out the knowledge of some of thoseapproaches inside an ontology in order to support the modeling of emotionalfacial animation in virtual humans (VH). Inside this ontology we...

We argue that principles from the design of dependable software, especially separation of concerns and the use of formality, can be applied beneficially in the construction of self-managing systems. We illustrate this approach by presenting an experimental architecture for dynamic and resilient computer-based systems which utilises component metadata to govern reconfigurations in...

During the last fours years a consortium of universities, hospitals and commercial companies has been working together for the development of innovative systems and services for mobile health care. Two major projects were financed by the European Union allowing the development of a complete mobile healthcare system and its validation with extensive medical trials. MobiHealth and...