This article surveys research in service advertising, discovery, and selection for mobile ad
hoc networks and related issues. We include a categorization of service discovery …

Large-scale distributed computing environments provide a vast amount of heterogeneous
computing resources from different sources for resource sharing and distributed computing …

CONTEXT: Ubiquitous Computing (or UbiComp) represents a paradigm in which information
processing is thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities. From a Software …

Mobile social networks represent a convergence between mobile communications and
service-oriented paradigms, which are supported by the large availability and heterogeneity …

Mobile ad hoc social networks are self-configuring social networks that connect users using
mobile devices, such as laptops, PDAs, and cellular phones. These social networks facilitate …

We propose a code-based discovery protocol for cellular device-to-device (D2D)
communications. To realize proximity based services such as mobile social networks and …

Context-awareness feature has been widely employed in the last years due to their
usefulness to enhance systems functional reliability and user experience. Different software …

Ontology Based Context-Aware Service Discovery for Pervasive Environments Page 1 7/4/2006
10:49:24 AM SIPE 2006, Lyon, France 1 Ontology Based Context-Aware Service Discovery …

Efficient and timely service discovery is a crucial feature for the usability of mobile ad-hoc
networks. In recent years a number of service discovery protocols have been developed and …

This work proposes an efficient proactive service discovery protocol that leverages the social
behavior and the mobility of the people. The protocol is based on the concept that the …