Middle-agents are used by end-agents to locate service providers in multi-agent systems. One central middle-agent represents a single point of failure and communication bottleneck ...
Multimedia delivery systems, such as Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), improve by knowing the geographic location of their clients. Therefore, we focus on a measurement-based g...
Bamba Gueye, Artur Ziviani, Serge Fdida, Jos&eacut...
—Motivated by the fact that most of the existing QoS service composition solutions have limited scalability, we develop a hierarchical-based solution framework to achieve scalabi...
Jingwen Jin, Jin Liang, Jingyi Jin, Klara Nahrsted...
Abstract. Context-aware computing involves the automatic tailoring of information and services based on the current location of the user. In this paper, we describe our experience ...
Tamer Nadeem, Adel M. Youssef, Suman Banerjee, Mou...
This article presents a hierarchical context monitoring and composition framework that effectively supports next-generation context-aware services. The upcoming ubiquitous space w...