This special issue of Computer Communications presents state-of-the-art research and applications in the area of location-based services (LBS). Initial location-based services entered the market around the turn of the millennium and for the greater part appeared in the form of restaurant finders and tourist guides, which never gained widespread user acceptance. The reasons for this were numerou...

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Ad hoc communication applications like computerfacilitated collaboration have become possible with the rapid advancements in portable computing and ad hoc wireless networking. Ad hoc communication solutions require a balance between private communications and access to corporate networked services in order to succeed. In this paper, we discuss and offer some approaches in integrating ad hoc com...

Quality of service (QoS) is an important issue in the design and management of web service composition. QoS in web services consists of various non-functional factors, such as execution cost, execution time, availability, successful execution rate, and security. In recent years, the number of available web services has proliferated, and then offered the same services increasingly. The same web ...

Im Rahmen des von der Europäischen Kommission geförderten Forschungsprojektes ELBA (European Location Based Adversting – IST-200136530) wurden die Erwartungen, Anforderungen, Hemmschwellen und Barrieren potenzieller Nutzer von Location Based Services empirisch identifiziert. Der Erfolg mobiler Dienste ist im wesentlichen von der Erfüllung der Nutzererwartungen abhängig. Es macht wenig Sinn tech...

IoT Based technology and contracture mode are a core stone for constructing proactive and predictive network smart service. A series of related technologies and intellectual options have driven transformations within every industry. IoT Based Smart Services has two essential components, that is, collection system and management system. The collection system is a smart agent systems on the manag...