From passive applications to sentient machines (cooperative cars at IST)

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.... results including one that showed how robotic devices could dynamically subscribe and unsubscribe from information resources as either information providers or information users.
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The cooperating cars demonstration showed how vehicles could communicate with each other and react to each others' movements to avoid accidents.
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The project results are being fed into a new IST initiative, HIDENETS, starting January 2006, which will involve an in-car electronics manufacturer (CARMEQ), industrial giant Fujitsu-Siemens and Telenor, a major Norwegian telecommunications company, in developing resilient
end-to-end solutions for distributed applications.
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