Abstract. In this paper, we further develop the idea of combining pervasive computing techniques with electronic payment systems to create activity-based micro-incentives. Economic...
Abstract. Grid computing is based on coordinated resource sharing in a dynamic environment of multi-institutional virtual organizations. Data exchanges, and service allocation, are...
When web services are used to coalesce around the distributed applications, one prominent solution to manage and coordinate web services is the use of process management. Many res...
Abstract— Software components embedded in ubiquitous systems, especially those using wireless networking, are subject to unpredictable behaviors inherent to using these systems i...
This paper proposes a unique map learning method for mobile robots based on the co-visibility infor mation of objects i.e., the information on whether two objects are visible at...