Concurrent engineering has been widely used in managing design projects to speed up the design process by concurrently performing multiple tasks. Since the progress of a design tas...
Abstract— This paper presents a tactile language for controlling a robot through its artificial skin. This language greatly improves the multimodal human-robot communication by ...
The changing needs of healthcare provision around the world are forcing service designers and decision makers to adopt new tools in design and evaluation of processes. Apart from ...
We present SQUIRREL, a stream-oriented programming framework for storage-centric sensor networks. The storagecentric paradigm—where storage operations prevail over communication...
The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...