We present a user profile management component for ubiquitous computing environments that provides management, inquiry and delivery of context-dependent user preferences. In part...
Post-catastrophic recovery is gaining more importance to human societies. This paper proposes use of a distributed autonomous economic medium to support recovery of communities af...
In recent years, it has been reported that several existing networks including the Internet have scale-free structure. In this paper, through a simple numerical analysis, we inves...
To sustain a large-scale overlay network, knowledge about network characteristics is indispensable. However, the collection of such information is often a burden on the developers...
We present a system that enables applications to discover and obtain information that describes the context of a particular entity (e.g., a user or a device). Our system revolves ...