Abstract. Due to an increasing number of portable devices over 785million world Internet users, a support for quality of service (QoS) and security becomes a significant issue in ...
Abstract. IEEE 802.11 WLAN technology has become an inexpensive, yet powerful access technology that is targeted at mobile users that remain within reach of the hot-spot. Such hot-...
This paper reports on extensions to a decision-theoretic location-aware shopping guide and on the results of user studies that have accompanied its development. On the basis of the...
Thorsten Bohnenberger, Oliver Jacobs, Anthony Jame...
In this paper, we explore the concept of dual–purpose speech: speech that is socially appropriate in the context of a human– to–human conversation which also provides meanin...
Kent Lyons, Christopher Skeels, Thad Starner, Corn...
Abstract. Asynchronous communications are prominent in distributed and mobile systems. Often consystems consider an abstract point of view with synchronous communications. However ...