As Grids try to achieve optimal and balanced utilization of unused resources in a distributed system, fast and efficient discovery of resource states is a key requirement. For sm...
The primary goal of smart homes is to provide their users with the maximum comfort and convenience. In this paper, we present a profile management framework for situation-dependen...
We describe a methodology for creating composite web services, a key ingredient in spatial data infrastructure (SDI) applications, which we demonstrate on an emergency management ...
Ontologies provide a means of modelling and representing a knowledge domain. Such representation, already used in purpose-built distributed information systems, can also be of gre...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
Sensor networks have opened new horizons and opportunities for a variety of environmental monitoring, surveillance and healthcare applications. One of the major tasks of sensor ne...
Increasing popularity of XML and P2P networks has generated much interest in distributed processing of XML data. We propose a novel solution organized around a mediator capable of...
Despite a high level of activity and a large number of researchers involved, current research in data mining is plagued with several serious problems that should be regarded as to...
Wide-area replication improves the availability and performance of globally distributed data repositories. Protocols needed for maintaining replication consistency may cause an un...
Java 2 Micro-Edition Connected Limited Device Configuration (J2ME CLDC) is the platform of choice when it comes to running mobile applications on resourceconstrained devices (cel...