This paper is about a novel rule-based approach for reasoning about qualitative spatiotemporal relations among technology-rich autonomous objects, to which we refer to as artifact...
The emergence of applications domains such as pervasive and autonomic computing has increased the need for customisation and dynamic adaptation of both distributed systems, and th...
Paul Grace, Eddy Truyen, Bert Lagaisse, Wouter Joo...
Abstract. Cognition of technical systems, as the ability to perceive situations, to learn about favorable behavior, and to autonomously generate decisions, adds new attributes to s...
Sebastian Kain, Hao Ding, Frank Schiller, Olaf Stu...
Abstract. Large information spaces and complex functionality of contemporary systems together with the advent of the Semantic Web are big challenges for the design of simple yet po...
Abstract. The proper deployment of sensors is very important for the successful completion of the sensing tasks due to the inevitable relation with the physical world. This paper p...
Xiaoling Wu, Jinsung Cho, Brian J. d'Auriol, Sungy...