Time/utility function time constraints (or TUFs) and utility accrual (UA) scheduling optimality criteria, constitute, arguably, the most effective and broadest approach for adapti...
Dynamic resource management is a crucial part of the infrastructure for emerging mission-critical distributed real-time embedded system. Because of this, the resource manager must ...
Paul Rubel, Joseph P. Loyall, Richard E. Schantz, ...
In contextual computing, where cues beyond direct user input are used to trigger computation, one of the most daunting challenges is inferring what the user is doing. For the doma...
Victoria Bellotti, Jim Thornton, Alvin Chin, Diane...
Abstract--Monitoring and automatic control of building environment is a crucial application of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in which maximizing network lifetime is a key challenge...
Abstract. In all user-centred agent-based applications, for instance in the context of ambient computing, the user agent is often faced to a difficult trade-off between the protect...