A crucial preprocessing stage in applications such as OCR is text extraction from mixed-type documents. The present work, in contrast to most until now, successfully faces the pro...
Abstract— Self-assembly is a process through which an organized structure can spontaneously form from simple parts. Taking inspiration from biological examples of self-assembly, ...
Distributed mechanisms that regulate the behavior of autonomous agents in open multi-agent systems (MAS) are of high interest since we cannot employ centralized approaches relying...
Innovative paradigms and frameworks have to be identified to enable the effective deployment and execution of pervasive computing services. Such frameworks must be conceived so a...
Cynthia Villalba, Alberto Rosi, Mirko Viroli, Fran...
Truly ubiquitous computing poses new and significant challenges. A huge number of heterogeneous devices will interact to perform complex distributed tasks. One of the key aspects...
Nicola Bicocchi, Marco Mamei, Andrea Prati, Rita C...