In an open environment such as the Internet, the decision to collaborate with a stranger (e.g., by granting access to a resource) is often based on the characteristics (rather tha...
Software monocultures are usually considered dangerous because their size and uniformity represent the potential for costly and widespread damage. The emerging concept of collabor...
Michael E. Locasto, Stelios Sidiroglou, Angelos D....
Future digital entertainment services available to home users will share several characteristics: i) they will be deployed and delivered through the Internet, ii) a single media c...
Claudio E. Palazzi, Giovanni Pau, Marco Roccetti, ...
This paper presents the main results of a three-year long field and design study of proactive information technology in the home. This technology uses sensors to track human activ...
Ilpo Koskinen, Kristo Kuusela, Katja Battarbee, An...
Standardized middleware is used to build large distributed real-time and enterprise (DRE) systems. These middleware are highly flexible and support a large number of features sin...