In this paper we show that application-aware adaptation, a collaborative partnership between the operating system and applications, offers the most general and effective approach ...
Brian Noble, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Dushyanth Nar...
Electronic commerce is emerging as a major application area for database systems. A large number of e-commerce stores provide electronic product catalogs that allow customers to s...
— This paper deals with a system level design solution to support information gathering in the presence of a mobile querying node that experiences frequent disconnections from a ...
David Tacconi, Iacopo Carreras, Daniele Miorandi, ...
Mobile applications are required to operate in environments characterised by change. More specifically, the availability of resources and services may change significantly during a...
Christos Efstratiou, Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies,...
The greatest contributor of CO2 emissions in the average American household is personal transportation. Because transportation is inherently a mobile activity, mobile devices are ...
Jon Froehlich, Tawanna Dillahunt, Predrag V. Klasn...