— In today’s service market the provisioning of high quality services has become a critical issue for providers as the business success of their customers is often based on the...
A process is described to determine the shot accuracy of an automatic robotic pool playing system. The system comprises a ceiling-mounted gantry robot, a special purpose cue end-e...
Joseph Lam, Fei Long, Gerhard Roth, Michael A. Gre...
— Multiple description coding (MDC) has emerged as a powerful technique for reliable real-time communications over lossy packet networks. In its basic form, it involves encoding ...
— This paper examines burst contention resolution problems in optical burst switching (OBS) networks. Since burst contentions take place i) when the network is congested by incre...
In this paper we consider the map construction problem in the case of an anonymous, unoriented torus of unknown size. An agent that can move from node to neighbouring node in the ...