Traditional reasoning tools for the Semantic Web cannot cope with Web scale data. One major direction to improve performance is parallelization. This article surveys existing studi...
Peiqiang Li, Yi Zeng, Spyros Kotoulas, Jacopo Urba...
In theory, peer-to-peer (P2P) based streaming designs and simulations provide a promising alternative to serverbased streaming systems both in cost and scalability. In practice ho...
As modern life becomes increasingly closely bound to the Internet, network security becomes increasingly important. Like it or not, we all live under the shadow of network threats...
In this paper we suggest a conceptual architecture for music systems, designed to shift the control over a shared urban space to the users themselves, and also to encourage social...
There are academic and commercial drivers for contextawareness to play a prominent role in the future of mobile services. Implementing a complete model of context remains an unsol...
In this paper we introduce WiMo, a location-based social networking tool that enables users to share and store their emotional feelings about places. WiMo creates a mobile social ...
Ruturaj N. Mody, Katharine S. Willis, Roland Kerst...
Reducing their energy consumption has become an important objective for many people. Consumption transparency and timely feedback are essential to support those who want to adjust...
Markus Weiss, Friedemann Mattern, Tobias Graml, Th...
Location Based Services (LBS) promise interesting business opportunities. Today, most LBS are either implemented in hardware devices, or downloaded and installed by mobile phone u...
Stephan Karpischek, Fabio Magagna, Florian Michahe...
Customer reviews and recommendations for products are provided by almost all e-business platforms, supporting consumers when shopping on the web. Mobile and ubiquitous computing p...
Felix von Reischach, Florian Michahelles, Albrecht...
Different kinds of computing environment effect human interaction in different kinds of ways and understanding how different environments ‘work’, as it were, is important to t...