The characteristics of mobile environments, with the possibility of frequent disconnections and fluctuating bandwidth, have forced a rethink of traditional middleware. In particu...
The Assistant for Cooperative Work (ASCW) is a powerful system for the management of distributed work. It consists of the Task Manager, the organizational information system TOSCA...
Occam is a parallel processing language designed by a team at INMOS in conjunction with the design of the transputer processor, and based on Sir T. Hoare's ideas of Communica...
We analyze various stochastic processes for generating permutations almost uniformly at random in distributed and parallel systems. All our protocols are simple, elegant and are b...
—This paper reports the challenges of developing multiple social robots that operate in a shopping mall. We developed a networked robot system that coordinates multiple social ro...
Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Sa...