Context and context-awareness have been central issues in ubiquitous computing research for the last decade. Advances with regard to context acquisition and activity recognition a...
This paper deals with large, distributed real-time systems that have execution times and resource utilizations which cannot be characterized a priori. (The motivation for our work ...
Lonnie R. Welch, Michael W. Masters, Leslie A. Mad...
This paper presents a novel approach for multiprocess synthesis supporting well-tailored module integration at system level. The goal is to extend the local scope of existing arch...
Oliver Bringmann, Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Axel Sieben...
Distributed systems are now both very large and highly dynamic. Peer to peer overlay networks have been proved efficient to cope with this new deal that traditional approaches can ...
Vincent Gramoli, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Achour Most...
Even as they enjoy impressive growth, one of the major challenges facing providers of online services is a high rate of customer turnover. It has adverse impacts on business perfo...