Mobile and ubiquitous computing environments provide a challenging and exciting new
domain for information retrieval. One of the challenges is to provide relevant and reliable …

Hierarchical software components offer interesting characteristics for the development of
complex applications. However, supporting the deployment of such applications is difficult …

The recent emergence of handheld devices and wireless networks implies an exponential
increase in the numbers of terminals users. Given this increase, today's service providers …

Vuosikymmenen alusta saakka suurin osa Internet liikenteestä on ollut vertaisverkkojen
aiheuttamaa. Joidenkin tutkimusten mukaan jopa 80% kaikesta tilaajaverkkojen Internet …

We propose mobile sensemaking as a collaborative mechanism to explore and understand
information in highly mobile and fluid situations, where people engage in multiple parallel …

The recent emergence of handheld devices and wireless networks has provoked an
exponential increase in the number of mobile users. These users are potential consumers of …

Mobile ad-hoc networks are suitable for collaborative applications, whose objective is to
reach a common goal through the cooperation of the members involved. These networks …

Le développement des applications distribuées, amenées de plus en plus à s' exécuter sur
des machines aux caractéristiques hétérogènes, tend à se complexifier. Le modèle à …

Nowadays, execution environments of applications are more and more heterogeneous: from
powerful servers to smart cards. In order to assume the heterogeneity and the portability of …

A method and application architecture are proposed for improving the sharing of presence
and other information between mobile clients and enterprise servers by determining, in a …