Cloud computing has emerged as a promising environment capable of providing flexibility, scalability, elasticity, failover mechanisms, high availability, and other important feat...
— Location-based services (LBS) have been widely accepted by mobile users. Many LBS users have direction-aware search requirement that answers must be in a search direction. Howe...
Abstract—The increasing need for continuously available software systems has raised two key-issues: self-adaptation and design evolution. The former one requires software systems...
Brice Morin, Thomas Ledoux, Mahmoud Ben Hassine, F...
Current standardization efforts aim towards a unifying platform for fixed and mobile telecommunication services. The IP multimedia subsystem is advocated as the candidate for buil...
Andreas Klenk, Michael Kleis, Benoit Radier, Sanaa...
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...