Autonomic computing is a grand-challenge vision of the future in which computing systems will manage themselves in accordance with high-level objectives specified by humans. The I...
The rapid increase in the number and variety of consumer-level electronic devices without the corresponding development of device management technology has lead to a configuration ...
Justin Mazzola Paluska, Hubert Pham, Umar Saif, Ch...
This paper presents a world model for location-aware and user-aware services in ubiquitous computing environments. It can be dynamically organized like a tree based on geographica...
Preference queries have received considerable attention in the recent past, due to their use in selecting the most preferred objects, especially when the selection criteria are con...
Maria Kontaki, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Yannis M...
During the last decade, software transactional memory (STM) gained wide popularity in many areas of parallel computing. In this paper, we introduce LISP-derived language equipped ...