Abstract—With the abundance and ubiquity of mobile devices, a new class of applications is emerging, called participatory sensing (PS), where people can contribute data (e.g., im...
Geographic information has spawned many novel Web applications where global positioning system (GPS) plays important roles in bridging the applications and end users. Learning kno...
Chance discovery provides a way to find rare but very important events for future decision making. It can be applied to stock market prediction, earthquake alarm, intrusion detect...
Location-enhanced applications use the location of people, places, and things to augment or streamline interaction. Location-enhanced applications are just starting to emerge in s...
Abstract. The usual context of service oriented computing is characterized by several services offering the same functionalities, new services that are continuosly deployed and oth...