A growing number of mobile computing applications are centered around the user’s location. The notion of location is broad, ranging from physical coordinates (latitude/longitude...
Martin Azizyan, Ionut Constandache, Romit Roy Chou...
The Ambient Kitchen is a high fidelity prototype for exploring the design of pervasive computing algorithms and applications for everyday environments. The environment integrates ...
Patrick Olivier, Guangyou Xu, Andrew Monk, Jesse H...
People increasingly generate content on their mobile devices and upload it to third-party services such as Facebook and Google Latitude for sharing and backup purposes. Although t...
Our digital universe is growing, creating exploding amounts of data which need to be searched, protected and filtered. String searching is at the core of the tools we use to curb...
Daniele Paolo Scarpazza, Oreste Villa, Fabrizio Pe...
Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems aim at utilizing the large amount of idle computational resources available on the Internet. Such systems allow guest jobs to run on a ho...