The design of very small databases for smart cards and for portable embedded systems is deeply constrained by the peculiar features of the physical medium. Privacy concerns are re...
—We propose a distributed monitoring scheme for an ad-hoc/MESH network topology, and design a Distributed Hash Table based Peer-to-Peer system to log the topology information. A ...
Information-based agency is founded on two observations: everything in an agent’s world model is uncertain, and everything that an agent communicates gives away valuable informa...
The paper surveys some relevant issues related to data management in pervasive environments. Particularly, it focuses on the compression of semantic annotations for building so ca...
A taxonomy-based source consists of a taxonomy and a database storing objects that are indexed in terms of the taxonomy. For this kind of sources, we describe a flexible interacti...