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...
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...
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...
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...
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...