Abstract. Being aware of the gap between technological offers and user expectations, the paper aims to illustrate the necessity of anthropocentric designs ("user-pulled")...
— The environmental science and engineering communities are actively engaged in planning and developing the next generation of large-scale sensor-based observing systems. These s...
Sameer Tilak, Paul Hubbard, Matt Miller, Tony Foun...
The first challenge that we tackle in this paper is how to conduct access control in ubiquitous environments where sites have to handle access requests from their own users as wel...
Service Oriented Computing is a paradigm for developing software systems as the composition of a number of services. Services are loosely coupled entities, can be dynamically publi...
Laura Bocchi, Stephen Gorton, Stephan Reiff-Margan...
Dependable systems evolution has been identified by the UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC) as one of the current grand challenges for computer science. We present work toward...