Two beliefs, ease of use and usefulness, have been considered to be fundamental in determining the acceptance of various IS in the past decades. These beliefs may not, however, fu...
This paper offers a high-level retrospective overview of the GOPI middleware platform which is the outcome of a three year project aimed at the development of generic, configurabl...
Localization is the problem of determining the position of a mobile robot from sensor data. Most existing localization approaches are passive, i.e., they do not exploit the opport...
"It / I" is a two-character theater play where the human character I (played by a real actor) is taunted and played with by an autonomous computer character It on a comp...
Recent progresses in ultra low power microelectronics propelled the development of several microsensors and particularly the self powered microsystems (SPMS). One of their limitat...
C. Jean-Mistral, S. Basrour, J. J. Chaillout, A. B...