Although server technology provides a means to support a wide range of online services and applications, their ad-hoc configuration poses significant challenges to the performan...
Querying non-conventional data is recognized as a major issue in new environments and applications such as those occurring in pervasive computing. A key issue is the ability to qu...
This paper proposes a novel remote face-to-face Mixed Reality (MR) system that enables two people in distant places to share MR space. Challenging issues to realize such an MR sys...
—We consider surveillance applications in which sensors are deployed in large numbers to improve coverage fidelity. Previous research has studied how to select active sensor cov...
Context-aware systems allow users to access services and multimedia data according to their current context (location, identity, preferences). Web 2.0 fosters user contribution and...