Location-Based Services (LBS) are attracting a great interest with the fast expansion of mobile computing nowadays. These services use the user location to customize the offered information. However, most of those services are designed for specific …
The context of the work presented in this thesis is mobile computing and knowledge management. We focus on the usage of semantic technologies for representation, sharing, and integration of knowledge about services (specially Location-Based Services) …
Mobile devices have penetrated our daily lives and currently smartphones and tablets are everywhere. These devices are equipped with different sensors which enable them to capture multimedia information (e.g., several cameras and microphone). …
In this paper we introduce a network of static and mobile agents which collaborate to process information requests by mobile users. The agents help users to define their information needs, process their requests by deploying themselves on devices …
Structured data extracted from the Web is highly heterogeneous due to its disparate origins and nature. There exist some techniques to integrate this information based on the extraction of synonymy relationships among the different entities involved. …