Continued advances in mobile networks and positioning technologies have created a strong market push for location-based applications. Examples include location-aware emergency resp...
Agents in open multi-agent systems (MAS) need means for locating other agents with which they may collaborate. To address this need, several agent location mechanisms were suggest...
In this paper, we explore flexible name resolution as a way of supporting extensibility for wide-area distributed services. Our approach, called Active Names, maps names to a cha...
Amin Vahdat, Michael Dahlin, Thomas E. Anderson, A...
One of the main problems that we have to face when visiting public or official buildings (i.e hospitals or public administrations) is the lack of information and signs that can gui...
Mobile communication offers many new opportunities. However, because of the mobility of the subscribers trustworthiness of data, reliability and security are major issues. Our obj...
Dogan Kesdogan, Hannes Federrath, Anja Jerichow, A...