Advances in networking, sensors, medical devices and smart phones have made it feasible to monitor and provide medical and other assistance to people either in their homes or outs...
Todays, we assist to the explosive development of mobile computing devices like PDAs and cell-phones, the integration of embedded intelligence (like Web server) in more and more c...
Emotional context is becoming a promising paradigm to develop more intuitive and sensitive recommender systems. Ambient Recommender Systems, arise from the analysis of new trends ...
The Internet Archive is a live production system supporting close to a petabyte of data and delivering an average of 2.3Gb/sec of data to Internet users. We describe the architect...
Critical Infrastructures (CIs) such as the Power Grid play an important role in our lives. Of all important aspects of CIs, real-time data delivery is the most important one becaus...