— We have previously shown that hemispherical soft fingertips are at equilibrium when they are in contact with objects, suggesting that the contact force and flexibility of the...
Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...
—The relevance of instruction parallelization and optimal event scheduling is currently increasing. In particular, because of the high amount of computational power available tod...
Abstract. The open and dynamic nature of modern distributed systems and pervasive environments presents significant challenges to security management. One solution may be trust ma...
This paper considers grasps and fixtures whose contacts react according to force-displacement laws consistent with friction constrains at the contacts. The passive force closure s...