Most research projects that start to implement the so called “Internetof Things” typically use smart products and mobile devices within brick-andmortarsupermarkets for consumer-product communication at the point-of-sale.But outside the supermarket specific information collected about the...

The position paper at hand points out how to use semantictechnologies enabling the development of ambient services. Therefore a 4-layered approach that integrates so-called object information with additionalavailable information from external resources is introduced. The proposedapproach is...

Internet-based information sharing among different partners of the valuechain enables collaborative business. Beyond, applying ambient technologiesprovides new opportunities for gathering information ubiquitously fromvarious sources including physical objects, e.g. the movement of goods orcars,...

This chapter reviews core concepts of peer-to-peer (P2P) networking. Ithighlights the management of resources, such as bandwidth, storage,information, files, and processor cycles based on P2P networks. A modeldifferentiating P2P infrastructures, P2P applications, and P2P communitiesis...