— Healthcare and economic drivers have increased the desire to deploy systems for continuous monitoring of patients, both in hospital and outpatient settings. Such systems must o...
Stephen Strowes, Nagwa Badr, Steven Heeps, Emil Lu...
Abstract. Positioned at the confluence between human/machine and hardware/software integration and backed by a solid proof of concept realized through several scenarios encompassin...
Abstract. This paper presents some important directions in the use of ontologybased semantics in achieving the vision of Autonomic Communications. We examine the requirements of Au...
David Lewis, Kevin Feeney, Kevin Carey, Thanassis ...
Management in pervasive systems cannot rely on human intervention or centralised decision-making functions. It must be devolved, based on local decision-making and feedback contro...
Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho, Emil C. Lupu, Naranker...
The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a superdatabase. Our ...