A Distributed Clustering Algorithm DCA and a Distributed Mobility-Adaptive Clustering DMAC algorithm are presented that partition the nodes of a fully mobile network ad hoc networ...
Mobile information appliances are increasingly used in numerous different situations and locations, setting new requirements to their interaction methods. When the user's situ...
Albrecht Schmidt, Kofi Asante Aidoo, Antti Takaluo...
The rapid adoption of mobile devices that are able to capture and transmit a wide variety of sensing modalities (media and location) has enabled a new data collection paradigm - p...
Sasank Reddy, Deborah Estrin, Mark H. Hansen, Mani...
This paper considers the design of agent strategies for deciding whether to help other members of a group with whom an agent is engaged in a collaborative activity. Three characte...
In this paper, we discuss one possible way of establishing trust between a user entity and a web service. We will assume that the user entity is machine-based (i.e. some software,...