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Making tuple spaces physical with RFID tags

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Marco Mamei,

Renzo Quaglieri,

Franco ZambonelliAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 434 - 439

https://doi.org/10.1145/1141277.1141378

Published: 23 April 2006 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a tuple-based distributed memory realized with the use of RFID technology. The key idea - rooted in a more general scenario of pervasive and mobile computing - is that our everyday environments will be soon pervaded by RFID-tagged objects. By accessing in a wireless way the re-writable memory of such RFID tags according to a tuple-based access model, it is possible to enforce mobile and pervasive coordination and improve our interactions with the physical world. An application example is presented to outline the potential of the approach.

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Making tuple spaces physical with RFID tags
1. Computer systems organization
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles

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DOI:10.1145/1141277

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