Emerging “urban” ad hoc networks resulting from a large number of individual WLAN users challenge the way users could explore and interact with their physical surroundings. Ro...
Recently, service orientation has increasingly been debated both in research and practice. While researchers postulate a paradigm shift towards services as the basic unit of excha...
In Internet-scale distributed systems, replicationbased scheme has been widely deployed to increase the availability and efficiency of services. Hence, consistency maintenance amo...
Smart spaces are open complex computing systems, consisting of a large variety of cooperative smart things. Central to building smart spaces is the support for sophisticated coordi...
The objective of our work is to provide some aid to the maintenance of a web site. The webmaster would like to get a semantic follow-up of the users’ browsing, but he only has a...