Embodied cognition emphasizes that intelligent behavior results from the coupled dynamics between an agent’s body, brain and environment. In response to this, several projects h...
The standard database mechanisms for concurrency control, which include transactions and locking protocols, do not provide the support needed for updating complex geographic data i...
Petko Bakalov, Erik G. Hoel, Sudhakar Menon, Vassi...
This paper presents the design challenges posed by a new class of ultra-low-power devices referred to as Energy-Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs). EnHANTs are small, fle...
Maria Gorlatova, Peter R. Kinget, Ioannis Kymissis...
: Games play a dual role: they test the player’s competence, and at the same time provide learning opportunities. They offer a simple form of a reward – the pleasure of playing...
Srinivasan Ramani, Venkatagiri Sirigiri, Nila Lohi...
—Large scale production grids are an important case for autonomic computing. They follow a mutualization paradigm: decision-making (human or automatic) is distributed and largely...