The number of processors embedded in high performance computing platforms is growing daily to solve larger and more complex problems. However, as the number of components increases...
Optimistic distributed systems often rely on version vectors or their variants in order to track updates on replicated objects. Some of these mechanisms rely on some form of global...
This paper presents Bittella: a new social network for content distribution based on Peer-to-Peer technologies. It exploits the common interests of the users in order to create soc...
Mobile IP and Network Mobility are the IETF proposals to obtain mobility. However, both of them have routing limitations, due to the presence of an entity (Home Agent) in the commu...
Existing approaches for the processing of location-dependent queries implicitly assume location data expressed at maximum precision (e.g., GPS). However, there exist applications w...
Abstract. Privacy issues are a major burden for the acceptance of pervasive applications. They may ultimately result in the rejection of new services despite their functional bene...
Abstract. This article presents a proposal for managing privacy in pervasive environments. These environments are capable of sensing personal information anywhere and at anytime. T...
Abraham Esquivel, Pablo A. Haya, Manuel Garc&iacut...
The increasing popularity of personal wireless devices has raised new demands for the efficient discovery of heterogeneous devices and services in pervasive environments. The exis...
Ayomi Bandara, Terry R. Payne, David De Roure, Tim...
The implementation of service-oriented device architectures (SODA) suffers from restrictions that are imposed by the use of existing syntactic technologies. Related problems includ...
Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM) has been proposed as an extension of BPM with Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services (SWS) technologies in order to increase and enhance...
Ana Karla Alves de Medeiros, Carlos Pedrinaci, Wil...