The POEMS project is creating an environment for end-to-end performance modeling of complex parallel and distributed systems, spanning the domains of application software, runti...
In the recent years multimodal interfaces have acquired an important role in human computer interaction applications. Subsequently these interfaces become more and more human-orien...
The Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) system is a contactless automatic identification system, which comprises readers and tags. In RFID systems, a reader collision occurs whe...
We focus on an important problem in the space of ubiquitous computing, namely, programming support for the distributed heterogeneous computing elements that make up this environme...
High assurance security is di cult to achieve in distributed computer systems and databases because of their complexity, non-determinism and inherent heterogeneity. The practical ...