This paper presents ways of approaching the design of successful character-based interactive installations. We rationalize our arguments within the context of both Disney's &...
Geographical information systems are more and more based on a DBMS with spatial extensions, which is also the case for the system described in this paper. The design and implementa...
Nowadays applications are increasingly developed based on remote Web services and service composition has become a powerful novel development paradigm. Due to the fact that such a...
We present a novel panoramic imaging system which uses a curved mirror as a simple optical attachment to a fisheye lens. When compared to existing panoramic cameras, our “cata-...
We establish a new worst-case upper bound on the Membership problem: We present a simple algorithm that is able to always achieve Agreement on Views within a single message latenc...