Abstract. Pervasive computing creates possibilities for presenting highly personalised information about the people, places and things in a building. One of the challenges for such...
While health records are increasingly stored electronically, we, as citizens, have little access to this data about ourselves. We are not used to thinking of these official record...
We consider applications of probabilistic techniques in the framework of algorithmic game theory. We focus on three distinct case studies: (i) The exploitation of the probabilistic...
The huge success of eBay has proven the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralized infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network ...
Online multi-participant virtual-world systems have attracted significant interest from the Internet community but are hindered by their inability to efficiently support interacti...