Today’s model of networking primarily concentrates intelligence at the end hosts with the network itself offering a simple“best-effort”,“data agnostic” communication med...
As users, computers, data and processes become increasingly mobile and the diversity of interacting devices increases, pervasive computing tasks are difficult to predict and to u...
Context-aware systems capture information from the attributes located within their surroundings and deal with different ways of interacting with the user in its environment. This p...
We propose CLEAR (Context and Location-based Efficient Allocation of Replicas), a dynamic replica allocation scheme for improving data availability in mobile ad-hoc peer-to-peer (M...
The Java Data Objects (JDO) industry standard appears to provide a promising framework for persisting Java objects in an efficient way. Many experts even regard JDO as a more appr...