XML is designed to facilitate data exchange between applications. However, XML and its schema languages do not express semantics but rather the document structure, such as the nes...
: We describe QoSDREAM, a middleware framework for the construction and management of context-aware multimedia applications. The contributions of QoSDREAM include (1) a novel appro...
VizWear-Active is a wearable active vision system for distributed computing environments. It consists of wearable and infrastructure-side modules that autonomously and cooperative...
Context awareness has emerged as an important element in distributed computing. It offers mechanisms allowing applications to be aware of their environment and enabling them to ad...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Fano Ramparany,...
We present TOTA (“Tuples On The Air”), a novel middleware for supporting adaptive context-aware activities in dynamic network scenarios. The key idea in TOTA is to rely on spa...