This position paper argues that the mobile agents paradigm is a useful and important technology enabling pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Context awareness drives adaptability ...
A new application of tuple-space-based coordination systems is in knowledge communication and representation. This knowledge is being published on the Web (the so-called “Semant...
Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Robert Tolksdorf, Alan Wood, R...
Today, we are witnessing a new level of scale, complexity, and pervasiveness of software systems that are designed to support much more holistically complex processes. Much richer...
This paper builds on ideas in a recent paper which argued that the core subject matter of the IS field should not be “the IT artifact” (as suggested by Orlikowski and Iacono [...
Maps of physical environments and geographical areas are pervasively exploited in many human activities. Electronic maps of virtual worlds have been studied and proven to be usefu...