The mobile user can interact with devices in the environment using either the devices themselves or a device she carries with her. This requires an adaption of the user interface t...
Markov Decision Processes (MDP) have been widely used as a framework for planning under uncertainty. They allow to compute optimal sequences of actions in order to achieve a given...
The ability to carry out biometric authentication using generic cameras can be extremely useful for a variety of applications, especially in mobile devices. Palmprint based authen...
In most network models for quality of service support, the communication links interconnecting the switches and gateways are assumed to have fixed bandwidth and zero error rate. T...
Applications in finance and telecommunications (intelligent network, network management, mobile computing) cause renewed interest in distributed and replicated data management. Si...