—This paper describes a new embedded system, called iFall, for the detection of unexpected falls for elderly people. In combination with a new sensors system and the monitoring o...
Convergence is often the key liveness property for distributed systems that interact with physical processes. Techniques for proving convergence (asymptotic stability) have been ex...
The next-generation social communication medium, teleimmersion, is receiving increasing attention from both the research and industrial communities. It enables interaction between...
Pervasive computing systems provide personalized and intimate services to improve users' quality of life by integrating computation and communication into the environments. Wi...
This paper details nano-scale devices being researched by physical scientists to build computational systems. It also reviews some existing system design work that uses the device...
Michael T. Niemier, Ramprasad Ravichandran, Peter ...