Nowadays, robots have to face very complex tasks, often requiring collaboration between several individuals. As a consequence, robotics can be considered one of the most suitable ...
Antonio Chella, Massimo Cossentino, Ignazio Infant...
Task dependencies drive the need to coordinate work activities. We describe a technique for using automatically generated archival data to compute coordination requirements, i.e.,...
Marcelo Cataldo, Patrick Wagstrom, James D. Herbsl...
In this paper, we study the important issues in the design of an efficient WIreless real-time visual SurveillancE System (WISES). Two important considerations are to minimize: (1)...
—It is well-known that the overall efficiency of a distributed system can suffer if the participating entities seek to maximize their individual performance. Consequently, mecha...
Current search engines can hardly cope adequately with fuzzy predicates defined by complex preferences. The biggest problem of search engines implemented with standard SQL is that...