: A distributed service to model and control contextual information in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments is presented in this paper. We introduce the general user model ...
Research in web services has allowed reusable, distributed, loosely coupled components which can easily be composed to build systems or to produce more complex services. Compositio...
Many sectors of the military are interested in Self-Organized (SO) systems because of their flexibility, versatility and economics. The military is researching and employing auto...
Dustin J. Nowak, Gary B. Lamont, Gilbert L. Peters...
Abstract: Mobile indoor navigation systems guide users through buildings and premises by taking into account the current position of the user and a destination such as a room, offi...
A robot’s ability to assist humans in a variety of tasks, e.g. in search and rescue or in a household, heavily depends on the robot’s reliable recognition of the objects in th...