Open distributed systems such as service oriented architecture and cloud computing have emerged as promising platforms to deliver software as a service to users. However, for many...
Querying non-conventional data is recognized as a major issue in new environments and applications such as those occurring in pervasive computing. A key issue is the ability to qu...
The widespread popularity of roaming wireless devices with limited and heterogeneous capabilities is enabling new challenging deployment scenarios for multimedia streaming in wire...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Carlo Giannelli
In this paper, we propose a new efficient and secure micro-payment scheme, named e-coupons, which can provide the users the facility of delegating their spending capability to oth...
For managers in established firms the Internet is a tough nut to crack. It is simple to set up a web presence, but difficult to create web-based business models. The brave new worl...