Abstract. The widespread availability of both fixed and wireless network connectivity and the growing market of portable devices are enabling anytime and anywhere impromptu collabo...
Dario Bottazzi, Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari
The growing diffusion of wireless-enabled portable devices and the recent advances in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs) open a new scenario where users can benefit from anywhere/any...
Dario Bottazzi, Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari
Context-awareness is an important capability needed in devices in a ubiquitous computing environment. Ubiquitous computing devices use different types of sensors along with the us...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems seek to provide sharing of computational resources, which may be duplicated or versioned over several peers. Duplicate resources (i.e. replicas) are the...
Deise de Brum Saccol, Nina Edelweiss, Renata de Ma...
Given the large amount of existing services and the diversified needs nowadays, it is time-consuming for end-users to find appropriate services. To help end-users obtain their desi...