Cell phones are increasingly being used as common clients for a wide suite of distributed, database-centric healthcare applications in developing regions. This is particularly tru...
Arvind Kumar, Amey Purandare, Jay Chen, Arthur Mea...
Current developments show that tomorrow’s information systems and applications will no longer be based on monolithic architectures that encompass all the functionality. Rather, t...
The term Ubiquitous Computing was coined by Mark Weiser almost two decades ago. Despite all the time that has passed since Weiser's vision, ubiquitous computing still has a l...
Fieldbus networks have significantly improved flexibility and management in classic building automation domains. However, the costs of such installations are still greatly affec...
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...