Abstract—RFID promises to revolutionize the inventory management in large warehouses, retail stores, hospitals, transportation systems, etc. Periodically reading the IDs of the t...
This invited contribution motivates the Hypermedia Discourse research programme, investigating the reading, writing and contesting of ideas as hypermedia networks grounded in disco...
Pervasive services may be defined as services that are available to any client (anytime, anywhere). Here we focus on the software and network infrastructure required to support pe...
Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Ronald Morrison, ...
Cooperation and autonomy are two antagonistic core variables of agent-based systems, and a key challenge in designing such systems is to balance these variables appropriately. Thi...
Abstract. We consider the class of applications that manage time series (TS) and propose a data model and a query language that let these applications manipulate TS data sets at a ...