Non-stop and highly available applications need to be dynamically adapted to new conditions in their execution environment, to new user requirements or to some situations usually u...
This paper presents a framework for the integration of web-based educational systems. It is part of a research project, MEDEA1 , whose final goal is to develop a general framework ...
Since several years, ubiquitous computing and pervasive computing has emerged and, in particular, context-aware computing. Using mobile devices, the context is perpetually evolvin...
—This paper presents VSK, a lightweight adaptable OS authorization architecture suitable for self-protection of pervasive devices. A “virtual” management plane, separate from...
Component-based operating systems enable embedded systems to adapt system policies, mechanisms, and abstractions to the specific workloads and contexts of each system. The scope o...