Pervasive computing, with its focus on users and their tasks rather than on computing devices and technology, provides an attractive vision for the future of computing. But, while...
Robert Grimm, Thomas E. Anderson, Brian N. Bershad...
This paper explores compiler techniques for reducing the memory needed to load and run program executables. In embedded systems, where economic incentives to reduce both ram and r...
In this paper we present a security framework for executing foreign programs, called helpers, on a Pocket Companion: a wireless hand-held computer. A helper program as proposed is...
Building robots can be a tough job because the designer has to predict the interactions between the robot and the environment as well as to deal with them. One solution to cope the...
The development of coherent and dynamic behaviors for mobile robots is an exceedingly complex endeavor ruled by task objectives, environmental dynamics and the interactions within...