Robotica / FirstView Article / April 2014, pp 1 20 DOI: 10.1017/S0263574714000976, Published online: 29 April 2014 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0263574714000976 How to cite this article: Kai Xu, Jiangran Zhao and Xidian Zheng Conguration comparison among kinematically optimized continuum manipulators for robotic surgeries through a single access port . Robotica...

Recent work in the area of network security, such as IPsec, provides mechanisms for securing the traÆc between any two interconnected hosts. However, it is not always possible, economical, or even practical from an administration and operational point of view to upgrade the software and con guration of all the nodes in a network to support such security protocols. One apparent solution to this ...

We consider n = 49 Polish voivodeships (administrative units), each characterized by p = 9 traits (features) expressing social, demographic, and environmental characteristics of the given units. Exemplary traits are: use of fertilizers, natural increase, divorce rate, education, number of medical doctors. The data were formerly analyzed with the goal of nding association between the mentioned t...

We present parallel algorithms for building decision-tree classi ers on shared-memory multiprocessor (SMP) systems. The proposed algorithms span the gamut of data and task parallelism. The data parallelism is based on attribute scheduling among processors. This basic scheme is extended with task pipelining and dynamic load balancing to yield faster implementations. The task parallel approach us...

A service provided by a computing system is characterised as fault-tolerant [4] when it continues to be provided according to its speci cations despite failures of system components (software or hardware) that participate in the service provision. With the ever increasing introduction of computing systems in many aspects of today's life, fault-tolerance of critical services becomes of great imp...

This paper proposes a new Feature Interaction (FI) ltering method at the requirements level. FI ltering is to screen out some irrelevant feature combinations before the FI detection process, by using simple indications that certain combinations are likely to cause FI. To achieve this, we extensively utilize a requirement notation method, called Use Case Maps (UCMs), which helps designers to vis...

In this paper, we propose a toolkit for building environment-aware migratory continuous media applications. In future computing environments, various objects in homes and o ces will embed computers, and various applications will be moved between these computers according to the location of these users. However, since the computers may have dramatically di erent hardware and software con guratio...

This paper describes Livingstone, an implemented kernel for a model-based reactive self-con guring autonomous system. It presents a formal characterization of Livingstone's representation formalism, and reports on our experience with the implementation in a variety of domains. Livingstone provides a reactive system that performs signi cant deduction in the sense/response loop by drawing on our ...

The Rapidly Deployable Radio Network (RDRN) is an Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) grant awarded to the University of Kansas's Telecommunications and Information Sciences Laboratory (TISL). The goal of this project is to develop a portable high speed wireless communications network that could easily be deployed in a time of battle or emergency. One of the major obstacles facing a decent...

Results of a comparison study of the tracking accuracy of two commercially available wide-range position tracking systems suitable for CAVEs are presented. An experiment was conducted with Flock of Birds and IS-900 tracking systems installed in the same CAVE environment to compare their accuracy. Another experiment was performed with a newly deployed IS-900 to investigate the impact of differen...