Scheduling parallel and distributed applications efficiently onto grid environments is a difficult task and a great variety of scheduling heuristics have been developed aiming to ...
Alexandre Ceasar Tavares Vidal, Francisco Jos&eacu...
Agricultural learning repositories can provide new opportunities for sharing, accessing, using and reusing learning resources online. Metadata plays a crucial role in such systems:...
This paper discusses an alternative application area for ambient information systems, coined as ‘persuasive visualization’. It investigates the recent evolution of ambient dis...
We have developed a series of ambient information systems and used each in our research lab for extended periods of time. The systems use technologies such as RFID, RSS, and Phidg...
John T. Stasko, Myungcheol Doo, Brian Dorn, Christ...
The growing diffusion of portable devices enables users to benefit from anytime and anywhere impromptu collaboration. Appropriate policy models that take into account the dynamici...