A major contributing factor to the complexity of creating and evolving distributed systems is the tangling of middleware-specific functionality with core business functionality in...
Abstract. Typical sensor nodes are composed of cheap hardware because they have to be affordable in great numbers. This means that memory and communication bandwidth are small, CPU...
: The ongoing trend towards a global services economy creates considerable market opportunities and challenges for providers of Software-as-aService (SaaS). For meeting customer ex...
Abstract This paper proposes a novel contact 3D acquisition system based on stereo vision and laser triangulation. The system is composed by several software modules for data acqui...
Context-aware pervasive systems are an important emerging category of software, increasingly pervading into daily life, play and work. These systems are characterized by capabilit...