: Web applications have evolved from simple read-only websites to complex data- and operation-intensive systems. The main goal of this kind of application is to provide the users w...
This paper presents the main results of a three-year long field and design study of proactive information technology in the home. This technology uses sensors to track human activ...
Ilpo Koskinen, Kristo Kuusela, Katja Battarbee, An...
The view selection problem is to choose a set of views to materialize over a database schema, such that the cost of evaluating a set of workload queries is minimized and such that ...
Large-scale distributed systems, such as ubiquitous computing environments, require a service delivery mechanism in order to keep track of the vast set of services offered and mak...
Maria Riaz, Saad Liaquat Kiani, Sungyoung Lee, San...
Although coupling interaction resources is key to ubiquitous computing, this notion has been overlooked in previous studies. In this paper, we address this notion in a more system...