New applications for autonomous robots bring them into the human environment where they are to serve as helpful assistants to untrained users in the home or office, or work as ca...
The emerging paradigm of web services promises to bring to distributed computing the same flexibility that the web has brought to the publication and search of information contain...
Xiaocong Fan, Karthikeyan Umapathy, John Yen, Sand...
We present a novel geometric model for robot mapping suited for robots equipped with a laser range finder. The geometric representation is based on shape. Cyclic ordered sets of p...
Diedrich Wolter, Longin Jan Latecki, Rolf Lakä...
One of the challenging research problems in validating a software engineering methodology (SEM), and a part of its validation process, is to answer “How to fairly collect, presen...
Allen’s interval calculus is one of the most prominent formalisms in the domain of qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning. Applications of this calculus, however, are restric...