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HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Changing shape: improving situation awareness for a polymorphic robot
Polymorphic, or shape-shifting, robots can normally tackle more types of tasks than non-polymorphic robots due to their flexible morphology. Their versatility adds to the challeng...
Jill L. Drury, Holly A. Yanco, Whitney Howell, Bri...
ICPP
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Improving Spatial Reuse with Collision-Aware DCF in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
—Carrier sensing is a medium access method widely adopted in wireless communication to protect data transfers from interference. For example, Distributed Coordination Function (D...
Lubo Song, Chansu Yu
MDM
2004
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Mobile Agents: Can They Assist with Context Awareness?
This position paper argues that the mobile agents paradigm is a useful and important technology enabling pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Context awareness drives adaptability ...
Arkady B. Zaslavsky
EKAW
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Mobile Cultural Heritage Guide: Location-Aware Semantic Search
In this paper we explore the use of location aware mobile devices for searching and browsing a large number of general and cultural heritage information repositories. Based on GPS ...
Chris J. van Aart, Bob J. Wielinga, Willem Robert ...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A framework for developing distributed location based applications
Location based services and applications are buzzwords nowadays, yet they have been around for quite some time in a variety of applications. However these applications are scarce ...
Andrej Krevl, Mojca Ciglaric