—Ubiquitous and pervasive computing envisions context-aware systems that gather real world information from many fixed and mobile microchips and sensors integrated in everyday o...
Wearable computing devices are obviously made all the more powerful due to their ability to be innately mobile. With this in mind, spontaneous peer-to-peer networks may emerge amo...
: The ubiquity and personalization of mobile phones makes them a promising platform for advertising. Currently, practices known from online advertisement can be adapted, e.g. conte...
— In this paper, we consider the problem of how background knowledge about usual object arrangements can be utilized by a mobile robot to more efficiently find an object in an ...
Scalable resource discovery services form the core of directory and other middleware services. Scalability requirements preclude centralized solutions. The need to have directory ...