Many information services in pervasive computing offer rich information, which is information that includes other types of information. For example, the information listed in a pe...
HYDRAstor is a scalable, secondary storage solution aimed at the enterprise market. The system consists of a back-end architectured as a grid of storage nodes built around a distr...
— This paper presents our work in the context of the Adaptive Resource Management (ARM) internal research project at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. The project addresse...
Current developments show that tomorrow’s information systems and applications will no longer be based on monolithic architectures that encompass all the functionality. Rather, t...
The rapid growth of broadband access has popularized multimedia services, which nowadays contribute to a large part of Internet traffic. Among this content, the broadcasting of li...