Smart antennas are expected to enhance scalability in ad hoc networks. This paper at first evaluates three directional MAC protocols, DMAC, MMAC and SWAMP as well as the omni-dir...
We present a set of graphical user interface elements, called widgets, for 2-dimensional visual codes. The proposed widgets are suitable for printing on paper as well as showing o...
DiamondHelp is a reusable Java framework for building graphical user interfaces based on the collaborative paradigm of human-computer interaction. DiamondHelp´s graphical design ...
Charles Rich, Candy L. Sidner, Neal Lesh, Andrew G...
Today’s multimedia environments are characterized by different stationary and a growing number of mobile devices, like PDAs or even mobile phones. To meet their requirements reg...
Michael Repplinger, Florian Winter, Marco Lohse, P...
Recently, context-aware computing with information appliances is the topic of many research efforts. In order to realize context-aware systems, it is necessary to describe rules, ...
Recent researches have highlighted the importance of developing a network with distributed problem solving abilities thus enhancing reliability with equal share of network resourc...
Replication on multiple nodes is an effective way to improve the availability in the P2P or grid environment. It is difficult to determine how many replicas can fulfill the user r...
The decoupling of producers and consumers in the publish/subscribe paradigm lends itself well to the support of mobile users who roam about the environment with intermittent netwo...