— Robots are increasingly being used in Computer Integrated Surgery (CIS) systems, yet to our knowledge, there is no open source software that is specifically targeted at this a...
Interoperability is a key property of enterprise applications, which is hard to achieve due to the large number of interoperating components and semantic heterogeneity. Platform-ba...
— Component-based software engineering (CBSE) is quickly becoming a mainstream approach to software development. At the same time, there is a massive shift from desktop applicati...
A simple extension to the relational model that permits metadata (more generally metaknowledge) to be stored and manipulated as first class data is proposed. The accompanying que...
Abstract--In this paper, we propose a lightweight and transparent management framework for TinyOS sensor networks, called L-SNMS, which minimizes the overhead of management functio...
Fenghua Yuan, Wen-Zhan Song, Nina Peterson, Yang P...