Abstract Recent progress in mobile broadband communication and semantic web technology is enabling innovative internet services that provide advanced personalization and localizati...
This paper introduces a new concept of information that can exist in a mobile environment with no fixed infrastructure and centralized servers, which we call the Hovering Informati...
Rapid evolution of wireless networking has provided wide-scale of different wireless access technologies like Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.11a/b/g, DSRC, 3G UMTS, LTE, WiMAX, etc. The c...
Classical distributed database systems monolithically offer distribution transparency and higher performance. This is made possible by making data available and closer to the appl...
Large and complex computer based systems are the result of an evolution process which may take many years. Heterogeneity is an important characteristic of such systems: During the...