With the development of service robots and with the emerging concept of the ubiquitous world, localization of a mobile robot has become a popular issue. Even though several localiz...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
This paper describes a dynamic service reconfiguration model where the proxy is composed of a chain of service objects called mobilets (pronounced as mo-be-lets), which can be dep...
Siu Nam Chuang, Alvin T. S. Chan, Jiannong Cao, Ro...
Visual search connects physical (offline) objects with (online) digital media. Using objects from the environment, like newspapers, magazines, books and posters, we can retrieve s...
Jamey Graham, Jorge Moraleda, Jonathan J. Hull, Ti...
Community wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are increasingly being deployed for providing cheap, low maintenance Internet access. For the successful adoption of WMNs as a last-mile te...
Saumitra M. Das, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Y. Charl...