The ability to accurately localize objects in an observed scene is regarded as an important precondition for many practical applications including automatic manufacturing, quality ...
The modeling of real scenes is a complex and challenging task for which the use of laser rangefinders is one of the most promising approaches. Unfortunately, in many situations, i...
Although the main fault-tolerance techniques are known for a long time, there exists no consistent approach for implementing dependable applications in the sense that the fault-to...
Mobile services offering multi-feature query capabilities must meet tough response time requirements to gain customer acceptance. The top-k query model is a popular candidate to im...
The primary-backup replication model is one of the commonly adopted approaches to providing fault tolerant data services. Its extension to the real-time environment, however, impo...