This paper uses robot experience to explore key concepts of autonomy, life and being. Unfortunately, there are no widely accepted definitions of autonomy, life or being. Using a ne...
Abstract. This paper reports on the proof-of-concept work to produce an energetically autonomous robot employing an artificial metabolic system using Microbial Fuel Cells. The pres...
Databases and Grid computing are a good match. With the service orientation of Grid computing, the complexity of maintaining and integrating databases can be kept away from the act...
This paper describes our experience using dependency analysis and visualization as a tool to identify intervention points for migrating applications to environments where they can...
Dave McComb, Simon Robe, Simon Hoare, Stew Crawfor...
A fundamental piece of information required in intelligent storage systems is the liveness of data. We formalize the notion of liveness within storage, and present two classes of ...
Muthian Sivathanu, Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, And...