Initiating and bootstrapping secure, yet low-cost, ad-hoc transactions is an important challenge that needs to be overcome if the promise of mobile and pervasive computing is to b...
Currently, many industrial initiatives focus on web-based applications. In this context an important requirement is that the user should only rely on a standard web browser. Hence...
In daily life, we can see images of real-life objects on posters, television, or virtually any type of smooth physical surfaces. We seldom confuse these images with the objects pe...
Like HTML, many XML documents are resident on native file systems. Since XML data is irregular and verbose, the disk space and the network bandwidth are wasted. To overcome the ve...
To investigate the problem of entity recognition, we deal with the creation of the so-called Entity Name System (ENS) which is an open, public back-bone infrastructure for the (Sem...