Web services are gaining high popularity and importance on mobile devices. Connected to
ad-hoc networks, they provide the possibility to establish spontaneously even complex …

The increasing ubiquity of mobile embedded systems has been matched by the evolution of
a variety of wireless network standards and technologies. The major constraints of wireless …

XML is a widely used as message serialization format in web-based open and
heterogeneous systems because of its flexible data model. Internet-of-Things (IoT), or …

Web-based collaboration platforms evolve into service-oriented architectures by promoting
composite and user-enriched services. In such platforms, the collaborations typically include …

In the ubiquitous era, for Web services to become a universal communication paradigm,
mobile devices enabled with Web services should be considered as an equal participant of …

Abstract The Internet of Things vision proposes a global platform in an unforeseen scale for
distributed applications that rely on data provided by interconnected resource-constrained …

Today, the work of disaster response teams is being increasingly supported and coordinated
by using portable computing devices. Connected to mobile ad-hoc networks, these devices …

Abstract Development of FPGA-based, network-enabled embedded systems in Register
Transfer Level hardware description languages is tedious. Despite the automation of this …

Mobile phones are becoming a new popular platform for business applications. The number
of mobile business users increases and so does the need for efficient mobile data exchange …

SOA has been one of the most fascinating design paradigms for enterprise-level application
software during the recent years. Key to its success has been the inherent support of …