As the cost of both hardware and software falls due to technological advancements and economies of scale, the cost of ownership for database applications is increasingly dominated...
The current trend towards dynamic and highly scalable service provisioning fosters the rise of Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms and so called Compute Clouds. The on-demand p...
Abstract—Time synchronization is a key component in numerous wireless sensor network applications. Most of the current software based time synchronization approaches suffer from ...
RFID are used to identify products in factory automation applications; Multi agent systems are a possibility to introduce flexibility into production processes. This article intro...
Abstract—The adoption of new hardware and software architectures will make future generations of pervasive devices more flexible and extensible. Networks of computational nodes ...
Alberto Ferrante, Roberto Pompei, Anastasia Stulov...