The integration of different wireless access technologies combined with the huge characteristic diversity of supported services in next-generation wireless systems creates a real h...
Context awareness has emerged as an important element in distributed computing. It offers mechanisms that allow applications to be aware of their environment and enable these appl...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Remco Poortinga...
In a ubiquitous computing environment, users continuously access computing services and interact with smart spaces, while moving from one place to another. Application migration, t...
Pauline P. L. Siu, Nalini Moti Belaramani, Cho-Li ...
We consider the problem of interconnecting a simple type of social network: Instant Messaging services. Today, users are members of various IM communities such as AOL, Yahoo, and ...
—With the proliferation of mobile devices in both smartphone and tablet form factors, it is intuitive and natural for users to socially interact with their collaborators or compe...