In a pervasive computing environment, the devices are embedded in the physical world, providing services and interconnected by a communication network. Composition of these servic...
Joanna Izabela Siebert, Jiannong Cao, Long Cheng, ...
Overlay topologies are now popular with many emerging peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, to efficiently locate and retrieve information. In contrast, the focus of this work is to use ove...
t ion which is much more abstract than a place vocabulary, the kinematic topology. Kinematic topology does not define qualitative inference rules, but provides a characterization o...
Recent excitement in the database community surrounding new applications--analytic, scientific, graph, geospatial, etc.--has led to an explosion in research on database storage sy...
While WiFi-based indoor localization is attractive, the need for a significant degree of pre-deployment effort is a key challenge. In this paper, we ask the question: can we perfo...