We present mechanisms, architectures, and an implementation addressing challenges with mobile opportunistic commerce centering on markets and mechanisms that support the procureme...
Context and context-awareness have been central issues in ubiquitous computing research for the last decade. Advances with regard to context acquisition and activity recognition a...
Service-based Systems (SBS) have the advantage of composing distributed systems from various services provided by multiple providers transparently. In addition to functional correc...
Emerging large scale utility computing systems like Grids promise computing and storage to be provided to end users as a utility. System management services deployed in the middle...
An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a standards-based integration platform that combines messaging, web services, data transformation, and intelligent routing in a highly distribut...