“History Teaches Everything, Including the Future”, wrote Alphonse de Lamartine in the nineteen century. Even if history cannot be really considered a predictive science, hist...
In this paper, we propose the use of Semantic Web technologies to bridge the gap between authoring systems and authors. The core part of our solution is the ontology-based framewo...
In this paper, we present an assessment of NFC (Near Field Communication) for future mobile payment systems. NFC is expected to become a very trendy technology for mobile services...
We present a system that enables applications to discover and obtain information that describes the context of a particular entity (e.g., a user or a device). Our system revolves ...
To sustain a large-scale overlay network, knowledge about network characteristics is indispensable. However, the collection of such information is often a burden on the developers...