: We review the efforts of the Open Grid Computing Environments collaboration. By adopting a general three-tiered architecture based on common standards for portlets and Grid Web S...
Jay Alameda, Marcus Christie, Geoffrey Fox, Joe Fu...
—Efficient discovery of nearby devices and services is one of the preconditions to obtain a usable pervasive environment. Typical user interfaces in these environments hide the ...
Ubiquitous computing has fueled the idea of constructing sentient, information-rich "smart spaces" that extend the boundaries of traditional computing to encompass physi...
Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Anand Ranganathan, Roy H. Campbe...
The challenging context of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) demands for a service-oriented technological shift in the field of ubiquitous computing. Recently, novel paradigms have be...
Michele Amoretti, Maria Chiara Laghi, Francesco Za...
Moving around our physical environment, we are surrounded and interact with information that exhorts and stimulates us to buy things. For most of us, not all of these impulses are...