Research in the domain of Workflow Management focuses increasingly on service orchestrations. Often the fact is neglected that a huge part of the activities of business processes a...
Pervasive applications rely on data captured from the physical world through sensor devices. Data provided by these devices, however, tend to be unreliable. The data must, therefor...
Shawn R. Jeffery, Gustavo Alonso, Michael J. Frank...
—Pervasive computing is fast becoming a reality with rapid advance in computing and networking technologies. It has the characteristics of scalability, invisibility, and the abse...
: Protection of personal data in the Internet is already a challenge today. Users have to actively look up privacy policies of websites and decide whether they can live with the te...
The vision of pervasive or ubiquitous computing, conceived by Mark Weiser, foresees a world where computing is embedded in every day objects. Such objects interact with each other...