Abstract Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication is evolving day by day and expected to
create an ecosystem of billions of electronic devices. This new class of communicating …

The goal of this work is to describe how robots interact with complex city environments, and
to identify the main characteristics of an emerging field that we call Robot–City Interaction …

Task allocation is one of the keys to maximize organizational benefits by handling as many
tasks as possible. Many computational multi-agent systems use agent's capability for task …

A large annotated corpus is critical to the development of robust optical character
recognizers (OCRs). However, creation of annotated corpora is a tedious task. It is laborious …

Models of communications in heterogeneous systems support exchange between agents of
different types. A key component is making the heterogeneous agents appear …

Fires cause billions of dollars in damage and thousands of deaths each year. Firefighting
robots are being deployed around the world to reduce the loss of human life and the amount …

Abstract The Ambient Intelligence (AmI) technologies have the potential to create intelligent
environments with new generation of assistive services, enhanced with ubiquitous robots …

Growing population and shortage of land in urban areas led to development of tall buildings.
Tall buildings have advantages and at the same time disadvantages. One of the …

As robots become more pervasive and ubiquitous in the lives of humans, they become
increasingly involved in every aspect of the lives of humans. People expect that robots will …

Abstract The Internet of Robotic Things, which includes ambient assisted living systems has
been pushed to be developed by the research community for reasons such as the …