Tropes, an object-based knowledge representation system, has been added three important intertwined features: constraints, composite objects and tasks. Constraints provide a decla...
This paper makes the case that operating system designs for sensor networks should focus on the coordination of resource management decisions across the network, rather than merel...
Jason Waterman, Geoffrey Werner Challen, Matt Wels...
The overall goal of this research is to improve the `environment awareness' aspect of personal autonomic computing. Personal Computing offers unique challenges for self-manag...
Most of behavior recognition methods proposed so far share the limitations of bottom-up analysis, and singleobject assumption; the bottom-up analysis can be confused by erroneous ...
Design of gracefully degrading systems, where functionality is gradually reduced in the face of faults, has traditionally been a very difficult and error-prone task. General appro...