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ICRA
2006
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Speeding-up Rao-blackwellized SLAM
— Recently, Rao-Blackwellized particle filters have become a popular tool to solve the simultaneous localization and mapping problem. This technique applies a particle filter i...
Giorgio Grisetti, Gian Diego Tipaldi, Cyrill Stach...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A resource kit for participatory socio-technical design in rural Kenya
We describe our approach and initial results in the participatory design of technology relevant to local rural livelihoods. Our approach to design and usability proceeds from rese...
Kevin Walker, Joshua Underwood, Timothy Mwololo Wa...
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Applying pervasive technologies to create economic incentives that alter consumer behavior
Economic incentives are a powerful way of shaping consumer behavior towards more commercially efficient and environmentally sustainable patterns. In this paper, we explore the id...
Tetsuo Yamabe, Vili Lehdonvirta, Hitoshi Ito, Hayu...
EEMMAS
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Engineering Contextual Information for Pervasive Multiagent Systems
Multiagent systems for mobile and pervasive computing should extensively exploit contextual information both to adapt to user needs and to enable autonomic behavior. This raises th...
Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
PODC
2011
ACM
12 years 12 months ago
Coordinated consensus in dynamic networks
We study several variants of coordinated consensus in dynamic networks. We assume a synchronous model, where the communication graph for each round is chosen by a worst-case adver...
Fabian Kuhn, Rotem Oshman, Yoram Moses