Context-aware applications adapt their behavior depending on changes in their environment context. Programming such applications in a modular way requires to modularize the global ...
This paper focuses on the problems of coordinating the movements of a cooperative team in an environment, and proposes an approach that takes inspiration from the laws of physics....
Modern software control systems must cope with uncertainty, manage dynamic environments, as well as provide greater flexibility. Distributed agent-based control systems are the id...
In pervasive computing environments, powerful handheld devices with wireless connections create opportunities for many new nomadic applications. We propose a new service discovery...
Extension of battery lifetime has always been a major issue for mobile computing. While more and more data are involved in mobile computing, energy consumption caused by I/O opera...