This paper proposes a multiagent based virtual community as a new means to support pervasive computing services. We give a conceptual definition of the concept of Place-Based Virt...
Tuan Nguyen, Seng Wai Loke, Torab Torabi, Hongen L...
Pervasive user mobility, wireless connectivity and the widespread diffusion of portable devices raise new challenges for ubiquitous service provisioning. An emerging architecture ...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Daniela Tibald...
ite Web service designed based on abstract Web services, which define only interfaces, allows an application developer to select services required for his application only by set...
Context-aware applications can better meet users’ needs when sensing agents installed in the environment automatically provide input relevant to the application. However, this n...
Dynamically creating new, composite services "on the fly" using existing ones in a local interaction environment (e.g. a home, meeting room, airport lounge, etc.) presen...