Abstract—Bringing heterogeneous devices like industrial machines, home appliances, and wireless sensors into the Web assumes the usage of well-defined standards and protocols. O...
Current consumer electronics devices do not interoperate and are hard to use. Devices use proprietary, device-specific and inflexible protocols. Resources across device classes, s...
The wide availability of radio signal strength attenuation information on wireless radios has received considerable attention as a convenient means of deriving positioning informat...
Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Quentin Lindsey, Andreas ...
In this paper, we describe the development of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) implementing the concept of a companion, i.e. an agent supporting the persistent representatio...
Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Z...
Today, we are witnessing a new level of scale, complexity, and pervasiveness of software systems that are designed to support much more holistically complex processes. Much richer...