In mobile teamwork environments two basic problems exist: how to discover someone based on a profile (skills, reputations) and how to assess that person’s “credibility” (tr...
In the near future, there will be increasingly powerful computers in smart cards, telephones, and other information appliances. This will create a massive infrastructure composed ...
The structure of open nets, like the Internet, is highly dynamic, as the topology of component networks continuously evolves. In this context, node connectivity is a key aspect an...
Location based services and applications are buzzwords nowadays, yet they have been around for quite some time in a variety of applications. However these applications are scarce ...
Mobile code computation has lead to a new paradigm of distributed computation. A mobile process can move from site to site and interact with the resources as a local process. To p...