Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...
Proactively providing services to mobile individuals is essential for emerging ubiquitous applications. The major challenge in providing users with proactive services lies in cont...
In the present paper, we examine the problem of supporting application-specific computation within a network file server. Our objectives are (i) to introduce an easy to use yet ...
Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Rajiv Wickremesinghe, Je...
Abstract. Object middleware is an enabling technology for distributed applications that are required to operate in heterogeneous computing and communication environments. Although ...
Olaf Kath, Aart van Halteren, Frank Stoinski, Maar...
Distributed information management plays a fundamental role within the base infrastructure supporting the elderly care domain. Specificities of this domain include the autonomy and...