Highly sensorised systems present two parallel challenges: how to design a sensor suite that can efficiently and cost-effectively support the needs of given services; and to extr...
We show how the database community’s notion of a generic query interface for data aggregation can be applied to ad-hoc networks of sensor devices. As has been noted in the senso...
Samuel Madden, Robert Szewczyk, Michael J. Frankli...
In this paper we show how an interactive system can be distributed among several peer devices. By taking advantage of the current trend towards ambient intelligent environments, w...
Context–Aware Composition is a technique to overcome the complexity of wireless discovery, device selection, and establishing connections to other computers in an environment wh...
Kent Lyons, Roy Want, David Munday, Jiasheng He, S...
The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...