The current integrated developments in network and computing give rise to a technical infrastructure for the information society which one may variously circumscribe by terms such...
Global Positioning System (GPS) Technology allows precise determination of location, velocity, direction, and time. The price of GPS receivers is falling rapidly and the applicatio...
For extracting the characteristics a specific geographic entity, and notably a place, we propose to use dynamic Extreme Tagging Systems in combination with the classic approach of...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems offer an efficient means of data sharing among a dynamically changing set of a large number of autonomous nodes. Each node in a p2p system is connected...
Mobile platforms combined with large databases promise new opportunities for mobile applications. However, mobile computing devices may experience frequent communication loss while...