Abstract. Virtual agents are used to interact with humans in a myriad of applications. However, the agents often lack the believability necessary to maximize their effectiveness. T...
Mobility, context-awareness and payment combined provide a customer with a completely new setting of consuming services at any time and any place. We introduce SmartRestaurant ser...
We focus on data gathering problems in energy-constrained wireless sensor networks. We study store-and-gather problems where data are locally stored on the sensors before the data ...
Many web sites incorporate dynamic web pages to deliver customized contents to their users. However, dynamic pages result in increased user response times due to their construction...
This paper presents a context-based awareness mechanism designed for users who access web-based collaborative systems using mobile devices. The limited capabilities of such devices...