The emergence of networked devices in the home has made it possible to develop applications that control a variety of household functions. However, current devices communicate via ...
There is a growing trend to deploy web services in pervasive computing environments. Implementing web services on networked, embedded devices leads to a set of challenges, includi...
This paper presents an approach for building consensus ontologies from the individual ontologies of a network of socially interacting agents. Each agent has its own conceptualizat...
Network resources will always be heterogeneous, and thus have different functionalities and programming models. This adversely affects interoperability. Seamless Mobility is one e...
Clinical studies are often conducted as multi-centered studies involving participants at different locations. Thus it becomes obvious that using mobile platforms and remote data e...