The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a superdatabase. Our ...
When people interact, they follow distinct rules that coordinate the order of speech, who opens doors, whom and how to greet, and many things more. Such a social codex depends on ...
: Protection of personal data in the Internet is already a challenge today. Users have to actively look up privacy policies of websites and decide whether they can live with the te...
Pervasive systems enable us to have an overview of what digital environments will look like in the future. Opportunities given by pervasive systems, both in terms of applications ...
We present a novel approach to conserve power in networked mobile devices. Our approach exploits communication within a pervasive smart space as an opportunity to save power as op...