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AROBOTS
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
Mobile manipulators for assisted living in residential settings
Abstract: We describe a methodology for creating new technologies for assisted living in residential environments. The number of eldercare clients is expected to grow dramatically ...
Patrick Deegan, Roderic A. Grupen, Allen R. Hanson...
TPDS
2002
104views more  TPDS 2002»
13 years 10 months ago
Performance Guarantees for Web Server End-Systems: A Control-Theoretical Approach
The Internet is undergoing substantial changes from a communication and browsing infrastructure to a medium for conducting business and marketing a myriad of services. The World W...
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Kang G. Shin, Nina T. Bhatti
IROS
2006
IEEE
152views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 4 months ago
Integrating Active Mobile Robot Object Recognition and SLAM in Natural Environments
Abstract— Linking semantic and spatial information has become an important research area in robotics since, for robots interacting with humans and performing tasks in natural env...
Staffan Ekvall, Patric Jensfelt, Danica Kragic
DSN
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Performability-Oriented Software Rejuvenation Framework for Distributed Applications
While inherent resource redundancies in distributed applications facilitate gracefully degradable services, methods to enhance their dependability may have subtle, yet significan...
Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, William H. Sanders, Savio ...
MDM
2001
Springer
135views Communications» more  MDM 2001»
14 years 3 months ago
An Architecture for the Effective Support of Adaptive Context-Aware Applications
Mobile applications are required to operate in environments characterised by change. More specifically, the availability of resources and services may change significantly during a...
Christos Efstratiou, Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies,...