Abstract. Pervasive computing applications must be sufficiently autonomous to adapt their behaviour to changes in computing resources and user requirements. This capability is know...
Opportunistic sensing allows to efficiently collect information about the physical world and the persons behaving in it. This may mainstream human context and activity recognitio...
We present a new methodology for generating and adapting octree meshes for terascale applications. Our approach combines existing methods, such as parallel octree decomposition and...
XML information retrieval (XML-IR) systems aim to provide users with highly exhaustive and highly specific results. To interact with XML-IR systems, users must express both their ...
This paper describes clime, a web-based legal advisory system with a multilingual natural language interface. clime is a `proof-of-concept' system which answers queries relat...
Roger Evans, Paul Piwek, Lynne J. Cahill, Neil Tip...