Abstract. Distributed applications rely on middleware to enable interaction among remote components. Thus, the overall performance increasingly depends on the interplay between the...
Abstract—This paper describes Steptacular, an online interactive incentive system for encouraging people to walk more. A trial offering Steptacular to the employees of Accenture-...
Computational representation of perceived image quality is a fundamental problem in computer vision and image processing, which has assumed increased importance with the growing r...
In 1969 Cordell Green presented his seminal description of planning as theorem proving with the situation calculus. The most pleasing feature of Green's account was the negli...
, are to address what we perceive as the most pressing shortcomings of current reflective middleware platforms. First, performance: in the worst case, this needs to be on a par wit...
Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Michael Clarke, Ni...