Electronic commerce is fast expanding all over the world. Currently most B2C (Business to Customer) electronic commerce focuses on retailing and other online services, such as onl...
This paper exploits ethnographic findings to build on and elaborate Grinter et al’s 2005 study of “the work to make the home network work”. We focus particularly on the work ...
Peter Tolmie, Andy Crabtree, Tom Rodden, Chris Gre...
Context-awareness is starting to emerge as a key driving principle for the design and provisioning of pervasive services in pervasive computing environments. Semantic languages se...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Alessandra Ton...
In this paper, we describe an alternative web paradigm, called the Web of People. Rather than a web of pages, it is a web of persons. The paradigm is motivated by a number of obvi...
Michel Plu, Pascal Bellec, Layda Agosto, Walter Va...
Distributed programming and object-oriented programming are two popular programming paradigms. The former is driven by advances in networking technology whereas the latter provide...
Alan C. Y. Wong, Samuel T. Chanson, Shing-Chi Cheu...