We describe Thresher, a system that lets non-technical users teach their browsers how to extract semantic web content from HTML documents on the World Wide Web. Users specify exam...
When a mobile user dials 911, a key to arriving to the emergency scene promptly is knowing the location of the mobile user. This paper presents SkyLoc, a GSM fingerprinting-based ...
Alex Varshavsky, Anthony LaMarca, Jeffrey Hightowe...
Pervasive computing environments have traditionally used distributed sensors to gather user context. EPC (Electronic Product Code) information extracted from RFID tags could addit...
This paper develops analytical models to predict the throughput and the response time of a replicated database using measurements of the workload on a standalone database. These m...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Emmanuel Cecche...
Abstract—The increasing need for continuously available software systems has raised two key-issues: self-adaptation and design evolution. The former one requires software systems...
Brice Morin, Thomas Ledoux, Mahmoud Ben Hassine, F...