Demographic information plays an important role in personalized web applications. However, it is usually not easy to obtain this kind of personal data such as age and gender. In t...
—We describe the development of a set of embedded system building blocks, known as eBlocks. An eBlock network can be viewed as a basic form of sensor network that can be develope...
Susan Cotterell, Ryan Mannion, Frank Vahid, Harry ...
At the present time, several shortcomings prevent the more effective use and more intense application of web information systems. Recent developments that are subsumed by the term...
The paper describes a metaobject architecture for distributed fault tolerant systems. Basically metaobject protocols enables functional objects to be independent from meta-function...
Data access and software exchange are often achieved over insecure networks such as the public Internet. System designers are therefore forced to be proactive with regard to verif...