Currently, the interest in Ambient Intelligence (or AmI) has increased exponentially due to the widespread use of portable devices. Users demand more and more functionality from t...
Systems are becoming exceedingly complex to manage. As such, there is an increasing trend towards developing systems that are self-managing. Policy-based infrastructures have been ...
Sandeep Uttamchandani, Carolyn L. Talcott, David P...
Software developers writing new software have strong incentives to make their products compliant to standards such as corba, com, and JavaBeans. Standardscompliance facilitates in...
Eric Wohlstadter, Stoney Jackson, Premkumar T. Dev...
The current landscape for digital rights management (DRM) consists of various ad hoc technologies and platforms that largely focus on copy protection. The fragmented nature of the...
In the last few years, the University of Aveiro, Portugal, has been offering several distance learning courses over the Web, using e-learning platforms. Experience showed that dif...