This paper focuses on coordination middleware for distributed applications based on active documents and XML technologies. It introduces the main concepts underlying active docume...
Paolo Ciancarini, Robert Tolksdorf, Franco Zambone...
Networks of small devices, such as environmental sensors, introduce a number of new challenges for traditional protocols and approaches. In particular, the extreme resource constr...
We build an efficient and reliable data transport protocol on top of the Short Message Service (SMS). We conduct a series of experiments to characterize SMS behaviour under bursty...
People with disabilities need several assistive technical aids to increase their autonomy and perform daily living tasks. This paper describes the role of networking and communicat...
Instruments and sensors are the primary sources of data driving science and the development and refinement of theory. A critical component of eresearch yet to be clarified is the ...
Donald F. McMullen, Ian M. Atkinson, Kenneth Chiu,...