— We investigate a technique that uses an embedded network deployed pervasively throughout an environment to aid robots in navigation. First, we show that the path computed by th...
Keith J. O'Hara, Victor Bigio, Shaun Whitt, Daniel...
In this paper we present a new framework for specifying access control policies in smart spaces called Criticality-Aware Access Control (CAAC). The main idea is to automatically r...
Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Tridib Mukherjee, Krishna K. ...
Although the strongest social relationships feature most prominently in our lives, we also maintain a multitude of much weaker connections: the distant colleagues that we share a ...
In this research, we investigate the role of common coupling in evolving software systems. It can be argued that most software developers understand that the use of global data has...
A number of emerging distributed platforms include xed and robust workstations but, like dynamic and pervasive networks, are often built from mobile and resource-constrained device...