Abstract—The component-based and service-oriented development have become commonly used techniques for building high quality, evolvable, large systems in a timely and affordable ...
Ad-hoc networks are perceived as communities of autonomous devices that interconnect with each other. Typically, they have dynamic topologies and cannot rely on a continuous conne...
— This paper proposes a service discovery protocol for sensor networks that is specifically tailored for use in humancentered pervasive environments. It uses the high-level conc...
In many complex machine learning applications there is a need to learn multiple interdependent output variables, where knowledge of these interdependencies can be exploited to impr...
In some applications such as filling in a customer information form on the web, some missing values may not be explicitly represented as such, but instead appear as potentially va...