The biggest challenge for RFID technology is to provide benefits without threatening the privacy of consumers. Many solutions have been suggested but almost as many ways have been...
Location, presence and messaging services provide the essential ingredients for emerging information and communications services. Nevertheless, the users are concerned about revea...
When analyzing dissemination protocols in mobile adhoc networks the underlying mobility model is an important factor because it strongly influences the performance of these protoc...
We propose a hybrid model to alleviate the notorious problem of premature battery depletion in sensor networks: in a first stage, simple sensors are deployed over an area of inter...
In this paper, we describe the middleware that has evolved from our attempt to capture user descriptions of policies controlling devices and services from natural language. Descri...
Bill Keller, Tim Owen, Ian Wakeman, Julie Weeds, D...