Truly ubiquitous computing poses new and significant challenges. A huge number of heterogeneous devices will interact to perform complex distributed tasks. One of the key aspects...
Nicola Bicocchi, Marco Mamei, Andrea Prati, Rita C...
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...
Multiagent systems for mobile and pervasive computing should extensively exploit contextual information both to adapt to user needs and to enable autonomic behavior. This raises th...
Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
The substitution of ATM transport by IP in future UMTS Radio Access Networks (UTRAN) introduces several performance challenges that need to be addressed to guarantee the feasibili...
Scientists are increasingly using large distributed systems built from commodity off-the-shelf components to perform scientific computation. Grid computing has expanded the scale ...