Current ubiquitous computing environments provide many kinds of information. This information may be accessed by different users under varying conditions depending on various conte...
Patterns, which are based on in-depth practical experience, can be instructing for the design of groupware applications as sociotechnical systems. On the basis of a summary of the...
Thomas Herrmann, Marcel Hoffmann, Isa Jahnke, Andr...
With the near ubiquity of mobile phones, people are reachable almost anywhere and at any time. At the same time we see an increasing need for people to limit their interactions on...
Ibrahim Bokharouss, Wayne Wobcke, Yiu-Wa Chan, And...
The energy efficiency of computer systems is an important concern in a variety of contexts. In data centers, reducing energy use improves operating cost, scalability, reliability,...
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In a number of application areas, distributed database systems can be used to provide persistent storage of data while providing efficient access for both local and remote data. W...