Construction activities take place in what can be called a dynamic virtual organization (VO). VOs require a secure, reliable, scalable information infrastructure that allows collab...
For mobile robots to assist people in everyday life, they must be easy to instruct. This paper describes a gesture-based interface for human robot interaction, which enables peopl...
Stefan Waldherr, Sebastian Thrun, Roseli Romero, D...
An increasing number of applications are being developed using distributed object computing middleware, such as CORBA. Many of these applications require the underlying middleware...
Balachandran Natarajan, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Shal...
The adventof multipoint(multicast-based) applications and the growth and complexity of the Internet has complicated network protocol design and evaluation. In this paper, we prese...
Ahmed Helmy, Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Deborah Estrin, ...
Ficus is a flexible replication facility with optimistic concurrency control designed to span a wide range of scales and network environments. Optimistic concurrency control provi...
Peter L. Reiher, John S. Heidemann, David Ratner, ...