The paper presents an MPEG-7 Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS)-based metadata and user profile model used within an enhanced DTV environment for semantic annotation and person...
— In recent years, a lot of companies and laboratories start to announce their various prototype service robots. As we could know in that point, the market for intelligent servic...
—While pure web-based services and P2P technologies are popular for personal and social networking, they both have inherent limitations. A hybrid P2P/Infrastrucutre approach coul...
This paper describes a personal service robot developed for assisting a user in his/her daily life. One of the important aspects of such robots is the user-friendliness in communi...
Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Shirai, Nobutaka Shimada, Yasu...
Abstract. The proliferation of interconnected computing devices is fostering the emergence of environments where Web services made available to mobile users are a commodity. Unfort...
Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Zakaria Maamar,...