— Web services orchestrations and choreographies require establishing Quality of Service (QoS) contracts with the user. This is achieved by performing QoS composition, based on c...
Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste, Stefan Haar, Cl...
Computational Grids are emerging as a new infrastructure for Internet-based parallel and distributed computing. They enable the sharing, exchange, discovery, and aggregation of re...
: As multimedia contents are becoming widely used in ubiquitous computing environments among many application fields, e.g., education, entertainment, and live surveillance, the dem...
—Ageing populations and the necessity to reduce environmental impact raise new challenges on our living buildings. Convergence of home control systems (air conditioning, light ma...
Multimedia streaming means delivering continuous data to a plethora of client devices. Besides the actual data transport this also needs a high degree of content adaptation respec...