This paper describes the design of a metadata model for capturing presentations developed as part of the VACE project (Video and Audio Capturing and Embedding). VACE is a modular,...
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is the computing paradigm that utilizes services as fundamental elements for developing applications/solutions. To build the service model, SOC re...
Based on five design principles extracted from a survey of location systems, we present the Location Stack, a layered software engineering model for location in ubiquitous comput...
Jeffrey Hightower, Barry Brumitt, Gaetano Borriell...
The way memory hierarchy has evolved in recent decades has opened new challenges in the development of indexing structures in general and spatial access methods in particular. In t...
Abstract. Today’s large-scale computing systems are deployed in open, changing and unpredictable environments. To operate reliably, such systems should be able to adapt to new ci...