The ESP game belongs to the genre called Games with a Purpose (GWAP), which leverage people's desire to be entertained and also outsource certain steps of the computational p...
Abstract—One of the key concepts of service-oriented computing is dynamic binding which favors on-demand integration of services into a running system. Companies can outsource ta...
Abstract—Open Web-based and social platforms dramatically influence models of work. Today, there is an increasing interest in outsourcing tasks to crowdsourcing environments tha...
Harald Psaier, Florian Skopik, Daniel Schall, Scha...
Because of their severe resource-restrictions and limited user interfaces, smart everyday objects must often rely on remote resources to realize their services. This paper shows ho...
Abstract The Internet provides a ubiquitous, standards-based substrate for global communications of all kinds. Rapid advances are now being made in agreeing protocols and machine-p...