The importance of communication, information sharing and interoperability in an emergency response scenario have risen recently based on the frequency of disasters throughout the ...
In this paper we present the work undertaken by the Advanced Interfaces Group at the University of Manchester into the design and development of a system to support large numbers ...
Steve Pettifer, Jonathan Cook, James Marsh, Adrian...
Sensor positioning is a crucial part of many location-dependent applications that utilize wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Current localization approaches can be divided into two ...
Ideally, software toolkits for collaborative applications should provide generic, reusable components, applicable in a wide range of circumstances, which software developers can as...
Fault-tolerant distributed systems based on fieldbuses may benefit to a great extent from the availabilityof semantically rich communication services,such as those provided by g...