Pervasive pheromone-based interaction with RFID tags

ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Mamei, Marco ^a   Zambonelli, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pervasive computing; RFID tags; Stigmergy

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL PHEROMONES; OBJECT TRACKING; PERVASIVE ENVIRONMENTS; STIGMERGY;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; ROBOTS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 34250340562     PISSN: 15564665     EISSN: 15564703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1242060.1242061     Document Type: Article

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