Selective Mobile Communication in Socially Sensitive Environments

Socially Inspired Motion Planning for Mobile Robots in Populated Environments

Nowadays, robots often operate in environments that they share with humans. The ability to act similar to humans is an important prerequisite for the social acceptance of robots. In this paper, we consider the problem of navigation in populated environments. We present a path planning algorithm that enables robots to move efficiently and smoothly with groups of people by selecting those individ...

Software Architecture and Communication in Mobile Environments

In this report the author documents the research carried out in part A of his Ph.D. project entitled " Software Architecture and Communication in Mobile Environments " and presents plans for future research. The research has focused on distributed systems for vehicular networks in which vehicles exchange information about conditions in the network observed by, e.g., on-board or roadside sensors...

Socially-Sensitive Systems Design

Socially targeted mobile services: towards an upper level ontology of social roles for mobile environments

The Semantic Web has recently attracted the attention of both researchers and practitioners in the information systems field. In this paper we explore an application of Semantic Web in mobile context. In particular we focus on the development of advanced models of mobile service provision by contextualizing users’ interaction characteristics through an upper level annotation ontology. The Seman...

Minimization of Communication Cost Through Caching in Mobile Environments

Users of mobile computers will soon have online access to a large number of databases via wireless networks. Because of limited bandwidth, wireless communication is more expensive than wire communication. In this paper we present and analyze various static and dynamic data allocation methods. The objective is to optimize the communication cost between a mobile computer and the stationary comput...