Studies find that at least 20% of web queries have local intent; and the fraction of queries with local intent that originate from mobile properties may be twice as high. The eme...
Petros Venetis, Hector Gonzalez, Christian S. Jens...
—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
: The emerging trend towards seamless monitoring of all business processes via comprehensive sensor networks – in particular RFID readers – creates new data management challeng...
In energy constrained wireless sensor networks, energy conservation techniques are to be applied in order to maximize the system lifetime. We tackle the problem of increasing netw...
An effective approach for energy conservation in wireless sensor networks is scheduling sleep intervals for extraneous nodes, while the remaining nodes stay active to provide cont...