Abstract--The inadequate quality of context forces the context consumers in pervasive environments to reason about the quality and relevance of context to be confident of its worth...
Atif Manzoor, Hong Linh Truong, Christoph Dorn, Sc...
In large-scale distributed information systems, where participants are autonomous and have special interests for some queries, query allocation is a challenge. Much work in this c...
In this paper, we propose an active grid resource management system supported by active networks for computational grid. First, we construct a scalable two-level resource managemen...
Self-adapting systems based on multiple concurrent applications must decide how to allocate scarce resources to applications and how to set the quality parameters of each applicat...
Vahe Poladian, David Garlan, Mary Shaw, M. Satyana...
Abstract—Precise evaluation of network appliance energy consumption is necessary to accurately model or simulate the power consumption of distributed systems. In this paper we ev...
Helmut Hlavacs, Georges Da Costa, Jean-Marc Pierso...