This paper presents and discusses various solutions for the cooperation of several components implementing Discovery Services (DS) in the EPCglobal architecture. This architecture aims to collect and store events involving objects tagged with a Electronic Product Code (EPC) that can be accessed using the RFID technology. Each event is stored in a repository with a standardized interface specifi...

Mobility is one of the trends in 2014. According to the report of IDC (International Data Corporation), the worldwide shipments of tablets have exceeded PCs in 2013 Quarter 4, while smart phones has already exceeded other devices in unit shipments and market ratio. With this trend, many location-based services (LBS) have been proposed, for example, navigation, searching restaurants or gas stati...

to study the effect of essential oils of medicinal plants on post-harvest stability of fruits quality and decay management of kinnow mandarin, this experiment was carried out as factorial in completely randomized design with four replications. essential oils of thyme, mint, fennel, rosemary, ajowan and cummin at two levels 500 and 750 ml/l were applied to wounded and non-wounded fruits, that ha...

Abstract Background Children involved in the child welfare system (CWS) have a greater need for mental health treatment relative to children in the general population. However, the research on mental health treatment for children in the CWS is sparse with only one known previous review of mental health services with children in the CWS. Objective This review reports on an evaluation of the lite...

This paper describes a qualitative study of retirees' social and personal practices via digital music technologies in the context of community music. We conducted a diary study, and interviewed retired community musicians who are experiencing transition to retirement. Amongst challenges due to ageing and retirement, retirees participating in community music often experience discontinuity of ide...

This study investigates into factors affecting the success of E-service using a research model grounded on the Updated DeLone and McLean Information System Success Model (DeLone & McLean, 2003). Fourteen factors originated from four constructs, i.e., system quality, information quality, service quality, and vendor dimensions, are included in our research model. Using the online music subscripti...

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extensions for Dynamic Directory Services Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this proto...

Although UDDI does not provide support for semantic search, retrieval and storage, it is already accepted as an industrial standard and a huge number of services already store their service specifications in UDDI. Objective of this paper is to analyze possibilities and ways to use UDDI registry to allow utilization of meta-data encoded according to Semantic Web standards for semantic-based desc...

Due to the huge amount of integrated devices and sensors in everyday objects ubiquitous systems are in vicinity and will be deployed in large scales in the near future. We expect these system to be unreliable as nodes may crash or vanish from time to time. Therefore a reliable data store is needed to offer application developers a secure place to store the data of the services. The data store i...