The development of applications for monitoring, control, simulation and diagnosis in the petroleum industry involves a multitude of complex software tools. These tools have their ...
Cong Zhang, Viktor K. Prasanna, Abdollah Orangi, W...
Human interaction occurs always in a specific context and in a particular environment, and a common knowledge base about them is essential for understanding each other. By immersi...
In this paper we present a novel approach to mobile robot navigation in natural unstructured environments. Natural scenes can be considered as random fields where a large number ...
Pervasive computing applications typically involve cooperation among a number of entities spanning multiple organizations. Any security breach in any single entity can have very fa...
The issue of software patents is widely discussed in Europe today. The standard economic rationale for patents is to protect potential innovators from imitation, which ultimately ...