Ever wondered why open source finally yields products that work? Eric Raymod discusses that in this paper using the bazaar as a metaphor for open source hacker developed software t...
The specific constraints that must be satisfied by embedded systems, such as timeliness, energy efficiency of battery-operated devices, dependable operation in safety-relevant sce...
Abstract. Advertisement dissemination is a promising M-commerce application which exploits the capabilities of mobile ad hoc networks to increase the visibility of the products bei...
Through massive parallelism, distributed systems enable the multiplication of productivity. Unfortunately, increasing the scale of available machines to users will also multiply d...
The Semantic Web has reached a level of maturity that allows RDF and OWL to be adopted by commercial software vendors. Products that incorporate these standards are being used to h...