Abstract. QoS-aware distributed applications such as certain Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing applications can benefit greatly from the provision of QoS guarantees from the unde...
In order to achieve the best application-level Quality-of-Service (QoS), multimedia applications need to be dynamically tuned and reconfigured to adapt to fluctuating computing an...
Location based services are becoming essential feature of context-awareness in ubiquitous computing. Reflective distribute component programming model is proposed to systematicall...
We use the term “Grid” to refer to a software system that provides uniform and location independent access to geographically and organizationally dispersed, heterogeneous reso...
William E. Johnston, Dennis Gannon, Bill Nitzberg,...
One challenge for ubiquitous computing is providing appropriate tools for professional designers, thus leading to stronger user-valued applications. Unlike many previous tool-buil...
Steven Dow, T. Scott Saponas, Yang Li, James A. La...