Background subtraction is an essential processing component for many video applications. However, its development has largely been application driven and done in ad hoc manners. I...
Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) constitute an emerging and pervasive technology that is attracting increased interest for a wide range of applications. WSANs have two m...
— Robots are increasingly being used in Computer Integrated Surgery (CIS) systems, yet to our knowledge, there is no open source software that is specifically targeted at this a...
Abstract: Applications based on plug-in architectures are extensible through thirdparties and enable customized user environments. We argue that extensibility and customization are...
This work compares and contrasts two component frameworks: (1) the web-centric Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework and (2) the FIPA-compliant multi-agent system (MAS). FIPA...