The provision of efficient methods and tool support for the development and engineering of distributed systems is a key enabling factor for the evolution of Information Technology...
Current consumer electronics devices do not interoperate and are hard to use. Devices use proprietary, device-specific and inflexible protocols. Resources across device classes, s...
Body Area Networks (BAN) is a key enabling technology in E-healthcare such as remote health monitoring. An important security issue during bootstrap phase of the BAN is to securely...
Object orientation and component-based development have both proven useful for the elaboration of open distributed systems. These paradigms are offered by the Creol language. Creo...
This paper presents an approach for managing access to services over presence-based communications based on the context of the situation. This paper addresses two technical challe...