— Tuning a system to an operating environment calls for experimentation, and a question that arises naturally is: how many experiments are needed to come up with a system meeting...
Ubiquitous Web systems have to deal with varying context information in order to support context awareness. Accomplishing this requirement necessitates gathering, processing and r...
In this paper, we describe our experiences of developing and evaluating GUIDE, an intelligent electronic tourist guide. The GUIDE system has been built to overcome many of the lim...
Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell, Adri...
It is becoming increasingly important to be able to adapt an application’s behavior at run time in response to changing requirements and environmental conditions. Adaptive progr...
Most adaptive delivery mechanisms for streaming multimedia content do not explicitly consider user-perceived quality when making adaptation decisions. We show that an optimal adap...