This paper presents a set of architectures for the composition of ubiquitous computing applications. It describes research that is being carried out in "extrovert-Gadgets&quo...
Advances in the areas of embedded systems, computing, and networking are leading to an infrastructure composed of millions of heterogeneous devices. These devices will not simply ...
Recently, a number of frameworks were proposed to extend interface theory to the domains of single-processor and distributed real-time systems. This paper unifies some of these ap...
Lothar Thiele, Ernesto Wandeler, Nikolay Stoimenov
Many techniques have been proposed to scale web applications. However, the data interdependencies between the database queries and transactions issued by the applications limit th...
People have developed a variety of conventions for negotiating face-to-face interruptions. The physical distribution of teams, however, together with the use of computer-mediated ...