This paper presents a set of architectures for the composition of ubiquitous computing applications. It describes research that is being carried out in "extrovert-Gadgets&quo...
Schema merging is the process of consolidating multiple schemas into a unified view. The task becomes particularly challenging when the schemas are highly heterogeneous and autono...
Xiang Li 0002, Christoph Quix, David Kensche, Sand...
The Swiss National Competence Center for Research in mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS or MICS) is one of several research initiatives sponsored by the Swiss...
Networked virtual environments (NVEs) are computergenerated virtual worlds where users interact by exchanging messages via network connections. Each NVE user often pays attention ...
— Access control in computational grids is typically provided by a combination of identity certificates and local accounts. This approach does not scale as the number of users a...
Tatyana Ryutov, Li Zhou, B. Clifford Neuman, Noria...