To realize the potential of opportunistic and participatory sensing using mobile smartphones, a key challenge is ensuring the ease of developing and deploying such applications, w...
Tathagata Das, Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmana...
Wireless sensor networks have attracted attention from a diverse set of researchers, due to the unique combination of distributed, resource and data processing constraints. Howeve...
A well-known problem in P2P systems is freeriding, where users do not share content if there is no incentive to do so. In this paper, we distinguish lazy freeriders that are merel...
Michel Meulpolder, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J. E...
The increasing number of Internet users has caused a dramatic increase in electronic commerce. This growth is outpacing technologies for dependability causing traditional views of...
Nicholas S. Bowen, Daniel C. Sturman, Tina Ting Li...
The availability of object middleware, such as CORBA, is rapidly being accepted as a means for cost effective and fast development for a wide range of distributed applications. Dis...
Maarten Wegdam, Dirk-Jaap Plas, Aart van Halteren,...