The demand of high quality services has fueled dimensional research and development in wireless communications and networking. As a result, different wireless technologies like Wireless LAN, CDMA, GSM, UMTS, MANET, Bluetooth and satellite networks etc. have emerged in the last two decades. Future networks capable of carrying multimedia traffic need IP convergence, portability, seamless roaming ...

Cooperative autonomous agents form coalitions in order to share and combine resources and services to efficiently respond to market demands. With the variety of resources and services provided online today, there is a need for stable and flexible techniques to support the automation of agent coalition formation in this context. This paper describes an approach to the problem based on fuzzy coal...

In a journalistic scenario new dimensions of cooperative feature writing are described. In order to compose a highly up-to-date article on economic events with global causes and consequences under the tight time constraints of a daily newspaper, by utilizing the geographic competence of correspondents and economic or political experts, their latest observations and views (in contrast to heavily...

The introduction of sustainable telemedicine solutions throughout Europe requires the development of secure, flexible and expandable systems and the evaluation of their operation in real-world settings such as field trials. This paper describes a system for a remote monitoring and care support field trial with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients. By following a user-centred-de...

0169-023X/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.datak.2008.08.004 * Corresponding authors. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M. Fugin 1 This work has been partially funded by the Italia Future complex architectures for Web-Services-based delivery of services and objects require applications able to deal with different levels of Quality of Service (QoS) and able to describe a...

P2P is a popular networking paradigm in today’s internet. As such, many research and development efforts are geared toward services that can be useful to the users of P2P networks. This paper is focused on the content-based publish/subscribe service and our problem is to devise an efficient mechanism that enables this service in any given P2P network of cooperative nodes. Most techniques requir...

In this paper, manufacturing management issues are addressed at three levels: inter-enterprise, intra-enterprise and shop floor levels. An Internet enabled framework based on Web services and software agents for cooperative manufacturing management is proposed. A Web based integration environment consisting of an agent based scheduling system, a Web based remote monitoring and control system, a...

Visualization of the cooperation context is an important issue, especially when applied to complex and unstable collective activities, as it is the case in the field of Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC). With the aim of assisting cooperative construction projects it is important to propose business services and user views adapted to user’s business requirements. This paper presen...

1. Introduction As the demand for Internet-based applications grows around the world, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has been becoming very popular. Mobile IPTV allows the users to receive multimedia contents over mobile IP networks using unicast, multicast or peer-to-peer (P2P) communications whenever they want and wherever they are. Common Mobile IPTV services include Live TV and Video-o...