−The ability for software agents to discover, query, and task ubiquitous sensors requires machineinterpretable service descriptions, such as those proposed by the Semantic Web ef...
J. Caleb Goodwin, David J. Russomanno, Joseph Qual...
In designing autonomous agents that deal competently with issues involving time and space, there is a tradeoff to be made between guaranteed response-time reactions on the one han...
New applications for autonomous robots bring them into the human environment where they are to serve as helpful assistants to untrained users in the home or office, or work as ca...
Context-aware applications rely on the ability to perceive the state of the surrounding environment. In this paper, we address a class of such applications where real-time guarant...
Ubiquitous computing and communication environments connect systems and people in unprecedented ways, but also fundamentally challenge the mindset of traditional systems engineeri...