Research on smart houses has mostly been focused on automation and invisible integration of technology, which may lead to a perceived loss of control and a sense of being observed....
Abstract--Microblogging sites allow users to post short messages online, offering a reliable way to communicate and to spread information quickly and efficiently; moreover, they ca...
- Mobile agents are an emerging approach to develop distributed and parallel applications. They also can be used to develop enterprise applications, since they can act as active ne...
User interfaces (UIs) are essential components of most software systems, and significantly affect the effectiveness of installed applications. In addition, UIs often represent a s...
This paper describes a new collaboration technology that is based on the support of lightweight, informally structured, opportunistic activities featuring heterogeneous threads of...
David R. Millen, Michael J. Muller, Werner Geyer, ...