Nowadays, systems often integrate a variety of applications whose service requirements are heterogeneous. Consequently, systems must be able to concurrently serve applications whi...
—Body sensor networks (BSNs) have been developed for a set of performance-critical applications, including smart healthcare, assisted living, emergency response, athletic perform...
Zhen Ren, Gang Zhou, Andrew Pyles, Matthew Keally,...
Systems must provide for mobile applications to be aware of the context in which they are being used. This is necessary to permit adaptation to heterogeneity of hosts and networks...
—Automatic service and application deployment and management is becoming possible through the use of service and infrastructure discovery and policy systems. But using the infras...
Robert Adams, Ricardo Rivaldo, Guilherme Germoglio...
Contract and rights management – and thus property rights protection – has gained increasing importance as a quality standard in brokerage and electronic commerce environments...