Spatial databases are entering an era of mass deployment in various real-life applications, especially mobile and location-based services. The real-time processing of spatial quer...
To be widely adopted, location-aware computing must be as effortless, familiar and rewarding as web search tools like Google. We envisage the global scale Place Lab, consisting of...
Bill N. Schilit, Anthony LaMarca, Gaetano Borriell...
Abstract. While past research in service oriented computing has focused on the fairly static functional description and the operators of services the dynamic and flexible compositi...
— Randomized agreement protocols have been around for more than two decades. Often assumed to be inefficient due to their high expected communication and computation complexitie...
Henrique Moniz, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Miguel Correi...
—A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) deployed for detection applications has the distinguishing feature that sensors cooperate to perform the detection task. Therefore, the decoupled...
Ashraf Tantawy, Xenofon D. Koutsoukos, Gautam Bisw...