Users of mobile tour guides often express a strong desire for the system to be able to provide information on arbitrary objects they encounter during their visit – akin to point...
Nigel Davies, Keith Cheverst, Alan J. Dix, Andre H...
Reliability is a very important issue in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs). Shortest paths are usually used to route packets in MANETs. However, a shortest path may fail quickly, bec...
Speech recognition has matured over the past years to the point that companies can seriously consider its use. However, from a developer’s perspective we observe that speech inp...
Werner Kurschl, Stefan Mitsch, Rene Prokop, Johann...
Pervasive and ad hoc computing applications are frequently deployed in dynamic networks. Due to mobility of the computing nodes, their unreliability, or a limited communication ra...
We describe an environment for distributed computing that uses the concept of well-known paradigms. The main advantage of paradigmoriented distributed computing (PODC) is that the...
Hairong Kuang, Lubomir Bic, Michael B. Dillencourt...