The use of Floating Car Data (FCD) systems for the generation of traffic information has been discussed in numerous publications, many of which are based on simulated data or on a small number of vehicles collecting data over a limited time span. We present FLEET, a real-world FCD system, which has been continuously operating since 2003, collecting data from thousands of taxis in the Vienna reg...

The field of multiagent robotics has recently reached a level of maturity in that systems are beginning to transition from proof-of-concept laboratory environments to deployed real-world systems. When we started planning for this special issue of IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine in the early spring of 2007, we hoped to capture this exciting development trend. With a lineup of six strong arti...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the performance of two approaches based on Vector Evaluated Particle Swarm Optimization (VEPSO) algorithm in two real world applications, which are the environmental economic dispatch problem and the optimization of a reinsurance contract portfolio. The two tested algorithms are the canonical VEPSO and a new version called VEPSO-N, where in the last one ...

Just as in general software engineering, often the process of developing and deploying a fielded application using a given technology is overlooked in the technology development effort. In practice, however, the complexity of the development process is often more critical to the adoption of a given technology than the basic algorithms that are developed within a given field. Furthermore, unders...

With the ever increasing number and power of computing devices around us, we envision a world where we are surrounded by information. Opportunistic Networking could play a role in this scenario and we explore approaches to improve Opportunistic Networks by exploiting the new paradigm of Information Centric Networking.

Although recent advances in sensor technologies draw our attention to indoor spaces, no fully functional indoor 3D models are available as of now. Researchers in 3D modeling field have focused on representing 3D volumes using B-rep method and suggested different theoretical types of topological relationships. However, very few of them are related with explicit implementations for indoor spaces....

Automatic and privacy-preserving systems to monitor elderly people in their home environment are one of the basic targets addressed by the wide research area of Ambient Assisted Living. Thanks to the low-cost Microsoft Kinect® device, high-resolution depth and visual sensing is now not limited to experimental and prototype implementations and is ready to address marketable solutions. This chapt...

GCC has a new infrastructure to support a link time optimization (LTO). The infrastructure is designed to allow linking of large applications using a special mode (WHOPR) which support parallelization of the compilation process. In this paper we present overview of the design and implementation of WHOPR and present test results of its behavior when optimizing large applications. We give numbers...

In this paper we provide the reader with a simple, yet thorough, overview of what is motion capture, its history and evolution so far and processes used in acquiring the tri-dimensional data of the recorded scene, take or animation. A brief look at the “mocap” process’s (short for motion capture) structure is given followed by an extensive list of the technologies behind the most popular system...

With increased processor speed and improved robotic and AI technology, researchers are be­ ginning to design programs that can behave in­ telligently and interact in the real world. A large increase in processing power has come from parallel machines, but taking advantage of this power is challenging. In this paper we address the issues in designing planners for real-time AI and robotic applica...