A world model for ubiquitous computing environments is presented. It can be dynamically organized like a tree based on geographical containment, such as in a user-room-floor-build...
Mobile agents are an emerging approach to develop distributed and parallel applications. They also can be exploited to develop enterprise applications, since they can act as activ...
Mobile programs, like applets, are not only ubiquitous, but also potentially malicious. We study the case where mobile programs are executed by a host system in a secured environm...
It is becoming more important to design systems capable of performing high-level management and control tasks in interactive dynamic environments. At the same time, it is difficul...
Autonomous robots, such as robot office couriers, need navigation routines that support flexible task execution and effective action planning. This paper describes XFRMLEARN, a s...