Abstract—Open Web-based and social platforms dramatically influence models of work. Today, there is an increasing interest in outsourcing tasks to crowdsourcing environments tha...
Harald Psaier, Florian Skopik, Daniel Schall, Scha...
—Large-scale online applications such as Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) require large amount of computing resources that support many players interacting simultaneous...
Context-aware applications can better meet users’ needs when sensing agents installed in the environment automatically provide input relevant to the application. However, this n...
The Home Network is a pervasive environment by nature. Its openness to dynamic distributed and heterogeneous devices brings great challenges in home application design. We present...
Managing the power consumption of computing platforms is a complicated problem thanks to a multitude of hardware configuration options and characteristics. Much of the academic r...
David C. Snowdon, Etienne Le Sueur, Stefan M. Pett...