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BIRTHDAY
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Deriving Specifications for Systems That Are Connected to the Physical World
Well understood methods exist for developing programs from formal specifications. Not only do such methods offer a precise check that certain sorts of deviations from their specifi...
Cliff B. Jones, Ian J. Hayes, Michael A. Jackson
ICMB
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
The Web of Augmented Physical Objects
This article investigates the growing complexity and connectivity between two former separated interaction spaces – the real and the virtual world. It is our attempt to augment ...
Thomas Nicolai, Florian Resatsch, Daniel Michelis
VRML
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Automatic derivation of electronic maps from X3D/VRML worlds
Maps of physical environments and geographical areas are pervasively exploited in many human activities. Electronic maps of virtual worlds have been studied and proven to be usefu...
Lucio Ieronutti, Roberto Ranon, Luca Chittaro
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Snoogle: A Search Engine for the Physical World
—Hardware advances will allow us to embed small devices into everyday objects such as toasters and coffee mugs, thus naturally form a wireless object network that connects the ob...
Haodong Wang, Chiu Chiang Tan, Qun Li
CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
The Physical World as a Virtual Reality
This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the ph...
Brian Whitworth