Sciweavers

2142 search results - page 344 / 429
» Improved Conditional E-Payments
Sort
View
IROS
2009
IEEE
178views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Mobile robots for offshore inspection and manipulation
— This paper analyzes the potential to apply mobile service robots in offshore oil and gas producing environments. The required hardware and software components and abilities of ...
Matthias Bengel, Kai Pfeiffer, Birgit Graf, Alexan...
W4A
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Accessibility perspectives on enabling South African sign language in the South African national accessibility portal
Persons with disabilities are often marginalised from economy and society due to the lack of access to disability related information and services. Through the use of assistive te...
Louis Coetzee, Guillaume J.-L. Olivrin, Ilse Vivie...
DASFAA
2008
IEEE
106views Database» more  DASFAA 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Flood Little, Cache More: Effective Result-Reuse in P2P IR Systems
State-of-the-art Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (P2P IR) systems suffer from their lack of response time guarantee especially with scale. To address this issue, a number of tec...
Christian Zimmer, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Gerhard We...
ICC
2007
IEEE
123views Communications» more  ICC 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
Quality of Service in Wireless Network Diversity Multiple Access Protocols Based on a Virtual Time-Slot Allocation
— In this paper, we propose a new resource allocation mechanism which is designed to improve the multiuser detection of wireless network diversity multiple access (NDMA) protocol...
Ramiro Samano-Robles, Mounir Ghogho, Desmond C. Mc...
QEST
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A business-oriented load dispatching framework for online auction sites
Online auction sites have unique workloads and user behavior characteristics that do not exist in other e-commerce sites. Earlier studies by the authors identified i) significan...
Daniel A. Menascé, Vasudeva Akula