Middleware technologies often limit the way in which object classes may be used in distributed applications due to the fixed distribution policies that they impose. These policies...
Scott M. Walker, Alan Dearle, Stuart J. Norcross, ...
We present HERMES, a prototype system based on a powerful query language for trajectory databases, which enables the support of aggregative Location-Based Services (LBS). The key ...
Nikos Pelekis, Elias Frentzos, Nikos Giatrakos, Ya...
Emerging models for context-aware role-based access control pose challenging requirements over policy administration. In this paper we address the issues raised by the decentraliz...
Maria Luisa Damiani, Claudio Silvestri, Elisa Bert...
— This paper addresses the problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) by a mobile robot. The SLAM problem is defined as a global optimization problem in which the o...
This paper describes a personal service robot developed for assisting a user in his/her daily life. One of the important aspects of such robots is the user-friendliness in communi...
Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Shirai, Nobutaka Shimada, Yasu...