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On the Internet, all sorts of community applications, especially social community applications, gain more and more importance every day. People in every type of community are eager to communicate, collaborate and inform themselves and others about news and information. So far the user interfaces for community applications have been Internet connected computers or advanced smart phones running standard...
Ambient intelligence (AmI) refers to an environment that is sensitive, responsive, interconnected, contextualized, transparent, intelligent, and acting on behalf of humans. AmI environments impose some constraints in the connectivity framework, power computing as well as energy budget. This makes of AmI a significantly different case within distributed systems. The combination of heterogeneity, dynamism,...
While the term future Internet has gained a lot of interest recently, there is little agreement on what this term means or what the future Internet looks like. By taking the viewpoint of an Internet user who is interested in using Internet services and not so much in the protocols that move data around, we first describe some possible future Internet services. In a second step we derive some network...
Current trends in 3D visualization merged with internet applications and sensor technologies will soon break the barriers to the widespread acceptance of 3D Internet, and they will enable a full user immersion in the virtual world. However this evolution will impact dramatically on the existing infrastructures since the fruition of 3D content in real time by a huge number of people poses new issues...
Federation is an identity management model in which various tasks associated with an identity transaction are distributed among the actors involved in the transaction. This model works from the premise that distributing tasks among the actors can achieve usability and privacy advantages for the user, as well as business efficiencies for businesses or applications. Typically, federated identity manifests...
Emergence of web services have generated new business models, opportunities and challenges. One of the major challenge faced in effecting utilization of these web services is composition of non functional features such as performance, security and geographical affinity of these services. Existing standards do not address the composition of such non functional features. A formal model based on trace...
Recent developments in mobile communication and small computing devices have had a tremendous impact on our societies. They have brought the dream of ubiquitous computing and communication closer to reality. In the near future the communication and computing devices enable mass-market scale ubiquitous services and applications. The main challenge is software that fulfils the needs of personalized,...
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