As the use of complex grid middleware becomes widespread and more facilites are offered by these pieces of software, distributed Grid applications are becoming more and more popul...
Constructing and executing distributed applications that can adapt to their current operating context, in order to maintain or enhance Quality of Service (QoS) attribute levels, ar...
Sten A. Lundesgaard, Arnor Solberg, Jon Oldevik, R...
Streaming media applications are becoming more popular on the late years, as for example, news transmitted live through the web, music, show, and films. Traditional client/server...
Marisa A. Vasconcelos, Leonardo C. da Rocha, Julia...
The Semantic Web is a new layer of the Internet that enables semantic representation of the contents of existing web pages. Using common ontologies, human users sketch out the mos...
Christian Fillies, Gay Wood-Albrecht, Frauke Weich...
Unique features of handheld devices, including their mobility, personalization and location-awareness engender new types of applications for mobile commerce, such as mobile adverti...