—ZigBee is popular for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) devices because of its low power consumption, built-in security method and ratified specifications. With these features, it...
Developing middleware services for dynamic distributed systems, e.g., ad-hoc networks, is a challenging task given that such services deal with dynamically changing membership and...
Kishori M. Konwar, Peter M. Musial, Nicolas C. Nic...
—The fields of autonomous robotics and ambient intelligence are converging toward the vision of smart robotic environments, in which tasks are performed via the cooperation of m...
Abstract—Robust, dependable and concise coordination between members of a robot team is a critical ingredient of any such collective activity. Depending on the availability and t...
George Roussos, Dikaios Papadogkonas, J. Taylor, D...
It is a common phenomenon for research projects to collect and analyse valuable data using ad-hoc information systems. These costly-to-build systems are often composed of incompat...
Radu Calinescu, Steve Harris, Jeremy Gibbons, Jim ...