— Location-based services (LBS) have been widely accepted by mobile users. Many LBS users have direction-aware search requirement that answers must be in a search direction. Howe...
One of the several initiatives to bridge the digital divide in developing countries has been the deployment of information kiosks or knowledge centers in villages in rural parts o...
Sheetal K. Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit Anil Nanavati...
—Ensuring spontaneous ad hoc interoperation in decentralized ubiquitous computing environments is challenging, because of heterogeneous resources and divergent policies. Centrali...
Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Peter L. Reiher, Leonard ...
One of the fundamental ideas of services and service oriented architecture is the possibility to develop new applications by composing existing services into business processes. Ho...
In future videocommunication services, the user’s communication device, such as PC, laptop, PDA or mobile phone is equipped with new interaction modalities. These can be cameras...
Oliver Schreer, Peter Eisert, Peter Kauff, Ralf Ta...