In this paper, we analyse how autonomic resource management can be achieved within a system that lacks centralized information about current system demand and the state of system ...
Mariusz Jacyno, Seth Bullock, Terry R. Payne, Nick...
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...
The home environment becomes ready to host distributed devices dynamically adapting to service availability and reacting to user location and user activity. Sensors, high definiti...
Abstract— Research on context-aware systems is usually usercentric and thus focussed on the context of a specific user to serve his or her needs in an optimized way. In this pap...
— This paper presents a computing model for resource-limited mobile devices that might be ubiquitously deployed in private and business environments. The model integrates a stron...