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...
We have developed a secure, collaborative, web-based electronic notebook (EN) designed to provide researchers and students with a means to record and share their primary research ...
The WWW has made information and services more available than ever before. Many of the first Web applications have been emulations of real world activities, in particular, e-comme...
We consider the problem of Object Safety: how objects endowed with processing, communication, and sensing capabilities can determine their safety. We assign an agent to each objec...
Access control is an important aspect of shared virtual environments. Resource access may not only depend on prior authorization, but also on context of usage such as distance or ...
Martin Scheffler, Jan P. Springer, Bernd Froehlich