While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
Abstract--In distributed embedded systems operated by battery, energy management is a critical issue that has to be addressed at different architecture levels. For systems that tig...
Gianluca Franchino, Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Mauro Mar...
Life-like adaptive behaviour is so far an illusive goal in robot control. A capability to act successfully in a complex, ambiguous, and harsh environment would vastly increase the ...
We present a novel, inexpensive, coarse tracking system that determines a person’s approximate 2D location and 1D head orientation in an indoor environment. While this coarse tr...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies promise to provide efficient distribution, sharing and management of resources, such as storage, processing, routing and other sundry service capabi...