Content-based publish/subscribe systems offer an interaction scheme that is appropriate for a variety of large scale dynamic applications. However, widespread use of these systems...
The increasing use of computers to manage everyday business poses problems for workers when they are away from their home environment. There are two key problems: • How can a mo...
This paper describes a personal service robot developed for assisting a user in his/her daily life. One of the important aspects of such robots is the user-friendliness in communi...
Jun Miura, Yoshiaki Shirai, Nobutaka Shimada, Yasu...
Mobile devices are increasingly relied on but are used in contexts that put them at risk of physical damage, loss or theft. We consider a fault-tolerance approach that exploits sp...
Service-oriented computing can benefit from multi-agent system technologies by adopting the coordination mechanisms, interaction protocols, and decision-making tools designed for...
Stefano Bromuri, Visara Urovi, Maxime Morge, Kosta...