Abstract— An important issue for supporting multimedia applications in multiple heterogeneous networks, a typical pervasive computing environment, is how to optimize the rate all...
Liang Zhou, Benoit Geller, Anne Wei, Baoyu Zheng, ...
The way people collaborate has been changed substantially. Team members are now belonging to different organizations, working on multiple objectives at the same time, frequently c...
Hong Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar, Dino Baggio, S...
A new application of tuple-space-based coordination systems is in knowledge communication and representation. This knowledge is being published on the Web (the so-called “Semant...
Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Robert Tolksdorf, Alan Wood, R...
In Autonomic Computing, an application needs to be aware of its environment. While the term "environment" is not normally understood as being a physical environment, in ...
Many dramatizations have depicted a fully automated home living environment, where actions and events are understood or even anticipated. While the realization of such environment...