Situational awareness of urban flooding during storm events is important for disaster and emergency management. However, no general purpose tools yet exist for rendering rainfall ...
With an expanding of Web services giving same functionalities, Quality of Service (QoS) is becoming an important criterion for selection of the best available service. So users ne...
Imagine what kind of applications become possible when our mobile devices not only present data but provide valuable information to other users. Users become able to instantaneousl...
In this paper we introduce NUBIA, a middleware that combines, through business rules, information generated by heterogeneous and autonomous systems. Communication between NUBIA and...
Sounds constantly occur around us, keeping us aware of our surroundings. People who are deaf have difficulty maintaining an awareness of these ambient sounds. We present an invest...