Marine Adaptive Sampling Scheme Design for Mobile Platforms under Different Scenarios

Marine Mammals as Oceanographic Sampling Platforms

Adaptive investment strategies for different scenarios

The main goal of this PhD thesis is to investigate some of the problems related to optimization of resources in environments with unpredictable behavior where: (i) not all information is available and (ii) the environment presents unknown temporal changes. The investigations in this PhD thesis are divided in two parts: Part I presents the investment model and some analytical as well as numerica...

Trusted Computing in Mobile Platforms Players, Usage Scenarios, and Interests

Trusted Computing for mobile platforms is considered important, and the approach of the TCG Mobile Phone Work Group is often seen as the most prominent one. However there are more initiatives, approaches, and players, especially in the mobile communications industry. We give an overview on the players and their interests as well as on the options trusted computing can offer and match both with ...

Building Mobile Tourist Guide Applications using Different Development Mobile Platforms

The rapid proliferation of mobile computing technology has massive potential for providing access to different services at any time and from anywhere. The mobile telephone is more than just making calls. It allows accessing several applications and services via the internet connection or by building stand-alone applications. The mobile telephone has a considerable effect in tourism by allowing ...

Securing SOAP Web Services for Mobile Devices on Different Platforms

Enterprise applications are often arranged in service-oriented architectures (SOA) nowadays. Many times services in a SOA are implemented by SOAP web services often including application-level security. With their increased computing power mobile devices such as PDA and smart-phone become promising clients for such enterprise applications. This paper contains an analysis of built-in support for...