Browsing by Subject "Mobile computing"

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      Mobile commerce: Vision and challenges (location and its management) 

      Samaras, George S. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2002)
      Mobile computing is distributed computing that involves elements whose location changes in the course of computation. Elements may be software components such as mobile agents or moving objects-data or hardware such as ...
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      Mobile computing with MPEG-21 

      Angelides, Marios C.; Sofokleous, Anastasis A.; Schizas, Christos N. (2005)
      In the field of multimedia content provision, many researchers investigate numerous techniques for adapting the content based on device, network, environment and user characteristics. In this paper, we present an MPEG-21 ...
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      Mobile health systems: A brief overview 

      Voskarides, Sotos Ch; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Istepanian, Robert Sh Habib; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Schizas, Christos N. (2002)
      Rapid advances in information technology and telecommunications, and more specifically wireless and mobile communications, and their convergence (telematics) are leading to the emergence of a new type of information ...
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      Mobile user personalization with dynamic profiles: Time and activity 

      Panayiotou, Christoforos; Samaras, George S. (2006)
      Mobile clients present a new and more demanding breed of users. Solutions provided for the desktop users are often found inadequate to support this new breed of users. Personalization is such a solution. The moving user ...
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      mPERSONA: Personalized portals for the wireless user: An agent approach 

      Panayiotou, Christoforos; Samaras, George S. (2004)
      The needs of the wireless and mobile user regarding information access and services are quite different than those of the desktop user. This need is not about browsing the Web but about receiving personalized services that ...
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      A novel 3-d model for node and system trust 

      Hadjichristofi, G. C.; Kappos, G.; Hadjicostis, Christoforos N. (2011)
      Nowadays, there is an increasing demand for wireless and mobile networks that guarantee secure and reliable data communication among users. To enable data exchanges, authentication mechanisms need to be in place to dynamically ...
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      An optimization of context sharing for self-adaptive mobile applications 

      Paspallis, Nearchos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2008)
      Because of the high potential of mobile and pervasive computing systems, there is an ongoing trend in developing applications exhibiting context awareness and adaptive behavior. While context awareness guarantees that the ...
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      The PaCMAn Metacomputer: Parallel computing with Java mobile agents 

      Evripidou, Paraskevas; Samaras, George S.; Panayiotou, Christoforos; Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967- (2001)
      The PaCMAn (parallel computing with Java mobile agents) Metacomputer launches multiple Java mobile agents that communicate and cooperate to solve problems in parallel. Each mobile agent can travel anywhere in the Web to ...
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      PALLAS: A querying interface for pervasive computing using handheld devices 

      Polyviou, S.; Evripidou, Paraskevas; Samaras, George S. (2004)
      In this paper we describe PALLAS (PALm Logic-based Algebraic Search), a prototype architecture, design and implementation for a search interface on a portable digital assistant. PALLAS is part of the UbAgent, a middleware ...
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      Personalized portals for the wireless user based on mobile agents 

      Samaras, George S.; Panayiotou, Christoforos (2002)
      Wireless users rarely (if ever) benefit from Internet information services thus requiring new type of services and new ways for structuring the needed content. Personalization appears to be the most appropriate solution ...
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      A pluggable middleware architecture for developing context-aware mobile applications 

      Paspallis, Nearchos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2014)
      The proliferation of powerful smartphone devices provides a great opportunity for context-aware mobile applications becoming mainstream. However, we argue that conventional software development techniques suffer because ...
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      Privacy concerns in sharing personal consumption data through online applications 

      Kamilaris, Andreas; Pitsillides, Andreas; Kondepudi, S.; Komninos, N. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016)
      As online eco-feedback social applications are being increasingly used around the world for motivating citizens to become more energy-aware, privacy concerns in terms of sharing personal electricity consumption data among ...
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      A scalable hash-based mobile agent location mechanism 

      Kastidou, G.; Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967-; Samaras, George S. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2003)
      In this paper, we propose a novel mobile agent tracking mechanism based on hashing. To allow our system to adapt to variable workloads, dynamic rehashing is supported The proposed mechanism scales well with both the number ...
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      SensoMan: Remote management of context sensors 

      Paphitou, A. C.; Constantinou, S.; Kapitsaki, Georgia M. (Association for Computing Machinery, 2015)
      Sensor networks that collect data from the environment can be utilized in the development of different context-Aware applications bringing in sight the need for data collection, management and distribution. Boards with ...
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      Supervisory and notification aggregator service enabler in a fixed mobile convergent architecture 

      Konstantinides, C.; Charalambous, Charalambos D. (2007)
      This paper investigates and proposes the introduction of a Supervisory and Notification Aggregator (SNA) service enabler in a Fixed Mobile Convergent (FMC) architecture. The SNA service enabler facilitates the deployment ...
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      A survey of software adaptation in mobile and ubiquitous computing 

      Kakousis, Konstantinos; Paspallis, Nearchos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (2010)
      Driven by the vast proliferation of mobile devices and ubiquitous computing, dynamic software adaptation is becoming one of the most common terms in Software Engineering and Computer Science in general. After the evolution ...
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      Using time and activity in personalization for the mobile user 

      Panayiotou, Christoforos; Andreou, Maria I.; Samaras, George S. (2006)
      Mobile clients present a new and more demanding breed of users. Solutions provided for the desktop users are often found inadequate to support this new breed of users. Personalization is such a solution. The moving user ...
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      ViSMA: Extendible, mobile-agent based services for the materialization and maintenance of personalized and shareable Web views 

      Samaras, George S.; Karenos, K.; Chrysanthis, Panos K.; Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967- (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2003)
      ViSMA (Views Supported by Mobile Agents) is a prototype set of extendible mobile-agent based services that allow the definition, materialization, maintenance and sharing of views created over remote Web-accessible databases. ...
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      WebExpress: A client/intercept based system for optimizing Web browsing in a wireless environment 

      Housel, B. C.; Samaras, George S.; Lindquist, D. B. (1998)
      This paper describes an application model and software technology that makes it possible to run World Wide Web applications in wide area wireless networks. Web technology in conjunction with today's mobile devices (e.g., ...