— Context-awareness is considered a key driving principle for the design and provisioning of adaptable pervasive services. Rightfully describing and interpreting context, however...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Alessandra Ton...
The terms pervasive and ubiquitous computing are used to describe a smart space populated by hundreds of intelligent devices that are embedded in their surroundings. Characteristi...
Novel wireless handheld devices allow the adoption of revised and adapted discovery approaches originally devised for the Semantic Web in mobile ad-hoc networks. Nevertheless, capa...
Michele Ruta, Floriano Scioscia, Eugenio Di Sciasc...
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
Individuals are interested in the semantic and not necessarily in the presentation of services. The service interaction has to support the quality of the human senses, and since q...