Pervasive computing, with its focus on users and their tasks rather than on computing devices and technology, provides an attractive vision for the future of computing. But, while...
Robert Grimm, Thomas E. Anderson, Brian N. Bershad...
The paper addresses the problem of reasoning with multiple ontologies interrelated with semantic mappings. This problem is becoming more and more relevant due to the necessity of b...
Abstract: A key idea of architecture is the description of components and their connections. This information can be extended to define the horizontal and vertical distribution of...
In Marc Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing, users are located in an environment with potentially thousands of computers around them. Many capabilities of these smart device...
New applications for the Internet such as video on demand, grid computing etc. depend on the availability of high bandwidth connections with acceptable Quality of Service (QoS). T...
David Michael Turner, Vassilis Prevelakis, Angelos...