The ubiquitous computing vision is to make knowledge and services easily available in our everyday environments. A wide range of devices, applications and services can be intercon...
In recent years, the standards of OGC’s Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) initiative have been applied in a multitude of projects to encapsulate heterogeneous geosensors for web-based...
Arne Broering, Theodor Foerster, Simon Jirka, Cars...
The proliferation of smart spaces and emergence of new standards, such as Web Services, have paved the way for a new breed of software systems. Often the complete functional and Qo...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
Background: Recent advances in Web and information technologies with the increasing decentralization of organizational structures have resulted in massive amounts of information r...