Abstract— Following Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing and calm technology, computer systems should run in the background, preferably without the user noticing it at ...
Many artificial intelligence systems implicitly use notions of granularity in reasoning, but there is very little research into granularity itself. An exception is the work of Hob...
The Sesame modeling and simulation framework aims at early and thus efficient system-level design space exploration of embedded multimedia system architectures. So far, Sesame onl...
This paper makes two main contributions towards establishing support for application-specific factors in middleware security mechanisms. First, it develops a simple classification...
Adaptation to changing environmental conditions is a major challenge for most distributed applications. The service-oriented programming paradigm leads to an increasing number of ...