Workflow management systems require advanced transaction support to cope with their inherently long-running processes. The recent trend to distribute workflow executions requires ...
Jochem Vonk, Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Erik Boertjes, ...
All but the most briefly used systems must evolve as their mission and roles change over time. Evolution in the context of large distributed systems is extraordinarily complex bec...
Abstract. PersonisAD, is a framework for building context-aware, ubiquitous applications: its defining foundation is a consistent mechanism for scrutable modelling of people, sens...
Mark Assad, David J. Carmichael, Judy Kay, Bob Kum...
Many believe that ubiquitous computing will succeed when it has faded into the background of everyday life and work—that is, when it has become mundane. This paper examines the ...
Mark W. Newman, Nicolas Ducheneaut, W. Keith Edwar...
In this paper we propose an OWL encoded context ontology (CONON) for modeling context in pervasive computing environments, and for supporting logicbased context reasoning. CONON p...
Xiaohang Wang, Daqing Zhang, Tao Gu, Hung Keng Pun...