A “friend finder” is a Location Based Service (LBS) that informs users about the presence of participants in a geographical area. In particular, one of the functionalities of ...
In this paper we present the architecture and design of an extended BPEL engine that implements the operational semantics of BPEL4SWS. BPEL4SWS is an extension of the BPEL language...
Hermes is a middleware system for design and execution of activity-based applications in distributed environments. It supports mobile computation as an application implementation s...
The Gaia ubiquitous computing platform currently supports mobile devices through a thin client proxy architecture. Mobile devices run a lightweight proxy client written in J2ME to...
Ellick Chan, Jim Bresler, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Roy H....
Complex environmental modeling often involves a large number of unknown physical and ecological parameters. Parameter estimation is one of the most difficult steps in many modelin...