This paper considers the complexity of measuring the return on investment for technology adoption. A brief case study of technology adoption in a large design and construction fir...
With the properties of autonomy, social ability, reactivity and pro-activeness, agents can be used to represent entities in distributed simulations, where fast and accurate decisi...
Continued advances in mobile networks and positioning technologies have created a strong market push for location-based applications. Examples include location-aware emergency resp...
Energy management is a critical concern in the design of embedded systems to prolong the lifetime or to maximize the performance under energy constraints. In particular, the emerg...
In ubiquitous computing environment, people carrying their mobile devices (eg., mobile phone, PDA, embedded devices) expect to access locally hosted services or resources anytime, ...