Future middleware platforms will need to be more configurable in order to meet the demands of a wide variety of application domains. Furthermore, we believe that such platforms wil...
Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curves have the property that they start at (0,l) and end at (1,O) and are monotonically decreasing. Furthermore, a parametric representat...
Self-management is one of the challenges for realizing Ambient Intelligence in pervasive computing. In this paper, we propose and present a semantic web based selfmanagement appro...
Real-time applications often have mixed hard and soft deadlines, can be preempted subject to the cost of context switching or the restart of computation, and have various data dep...
Due to inherent privacy concerns, online personalization services such as those offered through toolbars and desktop widgets are characterized by "no-free-disposal" (NFD...