— One primary goal in rescue robotics is to deploy a team of robots for coordinated victim search after a disaster. This requires robots to perform subtasks, such as victim detec...
Local search (LS) algorithms are among the most powerful techniques for solving computationally hard problems in combinatorial optimization. These algorithms could be viewed as &q...
: The use of multimedia sensor nodes can significantly enhance the capability of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for event description. In a number of scenarios, e.g., an erupting ...
Lei Shu, Manfred Hauswirth, Yan Zhang, Jianhua Ma,...
Acoustic echoes represent a major source of discomfort in hands free, full-duplex, communication systems. The problem becomes particularly difficult when the loudspeakers are nonl...
This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...