— This paper analyzes the potential to apply mobile service robots in offshore oil and gas producing environments. The required hardware and software components and abilities of ...
Matthias Bengel, Kai Pfeiffer, Birgit Graf, Alexan...
State-of-the-art middleware and component technologies lack support for Quality of Service (QoS) management. Application developers, therefore, integrate QoS mechanisms into the a...
The problem of detecting areas of motion in video sequences and estimating parameters such as speed, direction and dynamics is addressed in many applications of image processing s...
Ambient Intelligent Systems provide an unexplored hardware platform for executing distributed applications under strict energy constraints. These systems must respond quickly to c...
Diana Marculescu, Nicholas H. Zamora, Phillip Stan...
As peer-to-peer systems are evolving from simplistic application specific overlays to middleware platforms hosting a range of potential applications it has become evident that incr...
Gareth Tyson, Paul Grace, Andreas Mauthe, Gordon S...