Economical globalization and outsourcing have inspired the surge of research in distributed computer-aided design. This paper presents a framework for Internet-based symbolic dist...
This paper describes the software architecture of an autonomous tour-guide/tutor robot. This robot was recently deployed in the "Deutsches Museum Bonn," were it guided h...
Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dir...
We discuss four issues concerning the semantics of Message Flow Graphs (MFGs). MFGs are extensively used as pictures of message-passing behavior. One type of MFG, Message Sequence...
We propose a family of models of coordination of distributed object systems representing different views, with refinement relations between the different views. We start with dist...
We describe a WDM-based optical access network architecture for providing broadband Internet services. The architecture uses a passive collection and distribution network and a co...