Context-sensitive middleware-based software is an emerging kind of ubiquitous computing application. The components of such software communicate proactively among themselves accor...
T. H. Tse, Stephen S. Yau, W. K. Chan, Heng Lu, Ts...
A new class of embedded devices is emerging that has a mixture of traditional firmware (written in C/C++) with an embedded virtual machine (e.g., Java). For these devices, the main...
We present a conceptual framework for location-aware community systems and results from two studies of how sociallydefined places influence people's information sharing and c...
Quentin Jones, Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Steve Whittak...
Sensor webs are heterogeneous collections of sensor devices that collect information and interact with the environment. They consist of wireless sensor networks that are ensembles ...
Isaac Amundson, Manish Kushwaha, Xenofon D. Koutso...
Asynchronous Active Objects (AAOs), primarily exemplied by actors [1], nowadays exist in many forms (various kinds of actors, agents and components) and are more and more used beca...