Abstract. Features provide extensions to a basic service, but in new systems users require much greater flexibility oriented towards their needs. Traditional features do not easil...
Emerging “urban” ad hoc networks resulting from a large number of individual WLAN users challenge the way users could explore and interact with their physical surroundings. Ro...
Abstract—With the abundance and ubiquity of mobile devices, a new class of applications is emerging, called participatory sensing (PS), where people can contribute data (e.g., im...
Service robotics is currently a pivotal research area in robotics, with enormous societal potential. Since service robots directly interact with people, nding natural" and ea...
Web Services constitute a set of technologies that many believe will change the web communication landscape within the next few years. They offer standardized and easy communicati...