The characteristics of ad hoc networks naturally encourage the deployment of distributed services. Although current networks implement group communication methods, they do not sup...
In order to prevent emergencies or critical situations where humans are the origin, a timely provision of information thus obtained for the coordinating services and the on-site st...
The availability of large quantities of processors is a crucial enabler of many-task computing. Voluntary computing systems have proven that it is possible to build computing plat...
Rostand Costa, Francisco V. Brasileiro, Guido Lemo...
ing model abstracts over various types of positioning systems and incorporates the capture of uncertainty, serving as a foundation on which developers can apply sensor-fusion techn...
Graeme Stevenson, Juan Ye, Simon Dobson, Paddy Nix...
The huge success of eBay has proven the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralized infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network ...