The integration of cognitive models offers interesting theoretical and practical benefits to the development of complex models, but at the same time brings up new challenges that the modeling community is only beginning to address. In this paper we present our experiences integrating models and tools for modeling,. Specifically, on the modeling end, we integrated an ACT-R model of driving with ...

In this paper, a reactive control architecture based on hybrid systems (continuous/discrete) is used to control a unicycle mobile robot tracking a given trajectory while avoiding obstacles. The main motivation of using hybrid systems is the possibility to define the overall control scheme as a combination of several elementary controllers (trajectory tracking, obstacle avoidance) that stability...

Nowadays, mobile devices are used more and more, and their battery lifetime is a key concern. In this paper, we concentrate on a method called battery scheduling with the aim to optimize the battery lifetime of mobile devices. This technique has already been largely theoretically studied in other papers. It consists, for systems containing multiple batteries, in switching the load from one batt...

There is a huge and growing number of systems that depend on batteries for power supply, ranging from small mobile devices to large high-powered systems such as electrical substations. In most of these systems, there are significant user-benefits or engineering reasons to base the supply on multiple batteries, with load being switched between batteries by a control system. The key to efficient ...

Existing wireless networks aim to provide information communication services between mobile nodes. When a mobile node MN moves between different radio networks, a handover process is needed to change its point of attachment to the predicted radio network. Since traditional (based on one metric Received Signal Strength Indicator) predictions of handover decisions do not perform well, it is imper...

Out of the project EMuRgency a game-based learning environment evolved, which trains school children in providing reanimation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The application gets players to act as if they were in a real case of emergency. This paper reports on a formal usability study conducted with two different groups of learners, regular learners and learners with special educationa...

This work proposes a new adaptive-robust control (ARC) architecture for a class of uncertain Euler-Lagrange (EL) systems where the upper bound of the uncertainty satisfies linear in parameters (LIP) structure. Conventional ARC strategies either require structural knowledge of the system or presume that the overall uncertainties or its time derivative is norm bounded by a constant. Due to unmode...

—We present the MobiLife approach to contextual adaptation of multimodal mobile applications for individual users. In particular, we show that integration of user-interface adaptation, contextualization and personalization components of the MobiLife system architecture enables a personal and situational context-dependent provisioning of applications such as the 'Multimedia Infotainer'. User pre...

In a heterogeneous network environment, transparent horizontal and vertical handover is a much desired feature. Effective handover solution would allow mobile device users to stay steadily connected, seamlessly switching between different access networks. If it is consistently connected to networks which offers best Quality of Service (QoS) then that would dramatically improve user experience. ...

We present a framework for designing stable control schemes for systems with changing dynamics (SCD). Such systems form a subset of hybrid systems; their stabilization is therefore a problem in hybrid control. It is often difficult or even impossible to design a single controller that would stabilize a SCD. An appealing alternative are switching control schemes, where a different controller is ...