In a smart building environment nomadic users can benefit from specialised contextsensitive services. These can increase productivity and offer an improved lifestyle for users. Th...
Services for locating mobile objects are often organized as a distributed search tree. The advantage of such an organization is that the service can easily scale as a distributed ...
Abstract. Cloud computing platforms provide scalability and high availability properties for web applications but they sacrifice data consistency at the same time. However, many a...
Search computing is a novel discipline whose goal is to answer complex, multi-domain queries. Such queries typically require combining in their results domain knowledge extracted ...
Service-Orientation (SO) is a design and integration paradigm that is based on the notion of well defined, loosely coupled services. Within SO, services are viewed as computation...