While extensive studies have been carried out in the past several years for many sensor applications, they cannot be applied to the network with extremely low and intermittent con...
The recent success of Internet-based computing projects, coupled with rapid developments in peer-to-peer systems, has stimulated interest in the notion of harvesting idle cycles u...
Nowadays, people start to accept fuzzy rule–based systems as flexible and convenient tools to solve a myriad of ill–defined but otherwise (for humans) straightforward tasks s...
Data-ferrying disconnection-tolerant networks allow remote rural areas to access the Internet at very low cost, making them viable alternatives to more expensive access technologi...
The tension between privacy and awareness has been a persistent difficulty in distributed environments that support opportunistic and informal interaction. For example, many aware...