Production grids have a potential for parallel execution of a very large number of tasks but also introduce a high overhead that significantly impacts the execution of short task...
This paper describes an approach to representing normal activities in a smart house based on the concept of anxiety. Anxiety is computed as a function of time and is kept low by i...
Geoff A. W. West, Stewart Greenhill, Svetha Venkat...
The main purpose of this work is to develop an intelligent tutor system coupled to a robotics virtual laboratory, in order to offer a tutored virtual learning environment. The stu...
Efficient query processing in P2P-based Web integration systems poses a variety of challenges resulting from the strict decentralization and limited knowledge. As a special probl...
We present a methodology for a sensor network to answer queries with limited and stochastic information using probabilistic techniques. This capability is useful in that it allows...