Jini is a Java-based technology for 'spontaneous' distributed computing which enables programs to dynamically discover nearby services by means of a type-based lookup me...
Abstract Steph Durocher∗ and David Kirkpatrick† Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia Vancouver BC, Canada Given a set of client positions as input, f...
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) offer a convenient basis towards pervasive computing, due to inherent support for anytime, anywhere network access for mobile users. However, the dev...
Motivated by emerging needs in online interactions, we define a new type of digital signature called a `Content Extraction Signature' (CES). A CES allows the owner, Bob, of a...
We present a user-centred, task-oriented, comparative evaluation of two query-based document skimming tools. ProfileSkim bases within-document retrieval on computing a relevance pr...