This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...
Abstract. While Web Services ensure interoperability and extensibility for networked applications, they also complicate the deployment of highly collaborative systems, such as virt...
Qi Huang, Daniel A. Freedman, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken ...
: A distributed service to model and control contextual information in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments is presented in this paper. We introduce the general user model ...
Abstract. Wireless sensor networks can be very useful in applications that require the detection of crucial events, in physical environments subjected to critical conditions, and t...
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Georgios Mylonas, Sotiris...
The union of Interactive Digital TV (IDTV) and Web promotes the development of new interactive multimedia services, enjoyable while watching TV even on the new handheld digital TV...
Stefano Ferretti, Marco Roccetti, Johannes Andrich