This paper presents an innovative hierarchical feedback adaptation method that efficiently controls the dynamic QoS behavior of real-time distributed data-flow applications, such ...
Context awareness has emerged as an important element in distributed computing. It offers mechanisms that allow applications to be aware of their environment and enable these appl...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Remco Poortinga...
Many applications in ubiquitous computing rely on knowing where people and objects are relative to each other. By placing small wireless sensors on people, at specific locations, ...
Waylon Brunette, Carl Hartung, Ben Nordstrom, Gaet...
There are many application classes where the users are flexible with respect to the output quality. At the same time, there are other constraints, such as the need for real-time ...
Abstract. Computer mobility allows people to use computers in varied and changing environments. This variability forces applications to adapt thus requiring awareness of the comput...