In this paper we present a system, called U-interactive, that provides spontaneous interactions between human and surrounding objects in heterogenous ubiquitous computing environme...
The vision of pervasive or ubiquitous computing, conceived by Mark Weiser, foresees a world where computing is embedded in every day objects. Such objects interact with each other...
Access to distributed databases containing tuples collected about mobile physical objects requires information about the objects’ trajectories. Existing access control models ca...
Handheld computing devices are becoming highly connected devices with high capacity storage. This has resulted in their being able to support storage of, and access to, personal p...
Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J. F. Jones, Hyowon Lee, Nei...
Current solutions to characterize grid computing usage are limited in three important aspects. First, they do not provide a global, uniform view of the use of infrastructures compr...
Glauco Antonio Ludwig, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, G...