Innovative paradigms and frameworks have to be identified to enable the effective deployment and execution of pervasive computing services. Such frameworks must be conceived so a...
Cynthia Villalba, Alberto Rosi, Mirko Viroli, Fran...
Software agent marketplaces require the development of new architectures, which are capable of coping with unreliable computational and network infrastructures, limited trust amon...
Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Mark Klein, Juan A. Rodr&i...
This paper introduces a new class of interactive interfaces that can be moved around to appear on ordinary objects and surfaces anywhere in a space. By dynamically adapting the fo...
Gopal Pingali, Claudio S. Pinhanez, Anthony Levas,...
Adapting to current context of usage is of fundamental importance for pervasive computing services. As the technology for acquiring contextual information is increasingly availabl...
More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...