Standard concurrency control mechanisms offer a trade-off: Transactional memory approaches maximize concurrency, but suffer high overheads and cost for retrying in the case of act...
Yannis Smaragdakis, Anthony Kay, Reimer Behrends, ...
Physical controls such as knobs, sliders, and buttons are experiencing a revival as many computing systems progress from personal computing architectures towards ubiquitous comput...
Colin Swindells, Karon E. MacLean, Kellogg S. Boot...
The use of context as an input is one of the major characteristics of Ubiquitous Computing systems. This paper looks into the structural and the systematic features of context in ...
A world model for ubiquitous computing environments is presented. It can be dynamically organized like a tree based on geographical containment, such as in a user-room-floor-build...
: We envision future office buildings that partly or fully implement a flexible office organization, i.e. office space is assigned dynamically on request. These organizational ...
Wolfgang Trumler, Faruk Bagci, Jan Petzold, Theo U...