Nowadays, application needs loose-coupling approach allowing asynchronous evolution.
Service-oriented computing is a paradigm that utilizes services as fundamental elements for …

Critical design issues (CDIs) are a prominent topic in the literature on Smart Home service
design and engineering. Smart Home technologies (ie, products and services) have to meet …

Traditional component models and frameworks simplified software system development by
enabling developers to break software systems into independent pieces with well-defined …

Computing devices permeate working and living environments, affecting all aspects of
modern everyday lives; a trend which is expected to intensify in the coming years. In the …

The emergence of smart devices, especially in the home context, will change the way we
interact with our environment. However, implementing and maintaining home-control …

This article introduces the design of the AutoHome service-oriented framework to simplify
the development and runtime adaptive support of autonomic pervasive applications. To this …

Registration techniques in medical image processing are used to match anatomic structures
from two or more images (CT, MRI, PET....) taken at different times to track for example the …

3D object reconstruction from a single 2D line drawing is an important problem in both
computer vision and graphics. Many methods have been put forward to solve this problem …

One of the main technical challenges of the pervasive computing is the ability to build
applications with the capacity to adapt themselves to their environment. In this paper, we …

Service-oriented pervasive systems, composed of a large number of devices with
heterogeneous capabilities where devices' resources are abstracted as software services …