Monitoring is a task of collecting measurements that reflect the state of a system. Administration is a collection of tasks for control and manipulation of computer systems. Monito...
Truly ubiquitous computing poses new and significant challenges. A huge number of heterogeneous devices will interact to perform complex distributed tasks. One of the key aspects...
Nicola Bicocchi, Marco Mamei, Andrea Prati, Rita C...
Abstract—Stakeholders from several domains with local terminologies have to work together to develop and operate softwareintensive systems, like production automation systems. On...
As mobile devices, such as laptops, PDAs or mobile phones, are getting more and more ubiquitous and are able to communicate with each other via wireless technologies, the paradigm...
This paper uses a knowledge-based approach to querying heterogeneous spatial databases based on an ontology and conceptual and attribute similarities. The ontology, which may be in...