Ubiquitous computing systems can be regarded as open systems where heterogeneous and previously unknown entities may spontaneously interact, due to intrinsic mobility of users and...
—The need for collaborative service provisioning across different providers’ domains is being addressed by Circles of Trust (CoT), whose members adhere to the same policies and...
Context-awareness is starting to emerge as a key driving principle for the design and provisioning of pervasive services in pervasive computing environments. Semantic languages se...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Alessandra Ton...
Many argue that offshoring is an inexorable trend since IT skills have become a global commodity and they are vastly cheaper in other parts of the world. According to this view, m...
The cellular industry all over the world has been witnessing very high growth rates in subscriber base in recent years. For developing countries in particular, cellular services a...