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ICRA
1995
IEEE
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Improving the Response of SMA Actuators
Shape memory alloy (SMA) based actuators have a number of attributes which make them useful for robotic applications. Unfortunately their response is relatively slow, being limite...
R. Andrew Russell, Robert B. Gorbet
VLDB
1987
ACM
72views Database» more  VLDB 1987»
15 years 10 months ago
Providing Time-Related Constraints for Conventional Database Systems
A model for a historical database is described which is based upon time-stamped tuples as the unit of storage. The model includes both physical and logical time-stamps. The techni...
T. Abbod, K. Brown, H. Noble
WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
A simulation framework for service-oriented computing systems
An SOA-compliant DEVS (SOAD) simulation framework is proposed for modeling service-oriented computing systems. A set of novel abstract component models that conform to the SOA pri...
Hessam S. Sarjoughian, Sungung Kim, Muthukumar Ram...
EHCI
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Formalising an Understanding of User-System Misfits
Many of the difficulties users experience when working with interactive systems arise from misfits between the user's conceptualisation of the domain and device with which the...
Ann Blandford, Thomas R. G. Green, Iain Connell
SOSP
1997
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Agile Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobility
In this paper we show that application-aware adaptation, a collaborative partnership between the operating system and applications, offers the most general and effective approach ...
Brian Noble, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Dushyanth Nar...