Augmented reality (AR) is a relatively new technology that allows mixing virtual with real
world in different proportions to achieve a level of immersion that no virtual equipment can …

Pervasive computing environments are populated with networked services, ie, autonomous
software entities, providing a number of functionalities. One of the most challenging …

The advent of light-weight terminals (eg, PDA) with integrated communication capabilities
facilitates service access and hosting anytime, anywhere. However, effective service access …

Due to the large success of wireless networks and handheld devices, the ambient
intelligence (AmI) paradigm is becoming a reality. One of the most challenging objectives to …

The ability of networked system software to adapt in a controlled manner to changes in the
environment and requirements is crucial, but difficult to realize in complex systems with …

Wearable augmented reality (AR) can help the task of a user by adding virtual objects to his
view on the real world. To save power in the mobile unit, rendering can be offloaded to the …

Today's wireless networks and devices support the dynamic composition of mobile
distributed systems, according to device connectivity. This has in particular led to the …

The quality of real-time video streaming over wireless links is significantly reduced due to
packet losses and delays caused by rapid changes of the link conditions. We resolve this …

Question answering (QA) can vastly improve the quality and effectiveness of knowledge
acquisition on the Web. Web search provides a list of documents targeted based on the …

A Web service is an autonomous unit of application logic that provides either some business
functionality or information to other applications through an Internet connection. Web …