Context-awareness is a key concept in ubiquitous computing, which sometimes seems to be a technology looking for a purpose. In this paper we report on the application of context-a...
In a reputation-based trust management system an entity’s behaviour determines its reputation which in turn affects other entities interaction with it. We present a mathematical...
— Quality of Service (QoS) is an area with high academic curiosity. Our long-term goal is to develop a unified mathematical model. This paper is a first step towards this ambit...
The advantage of cognitively motivated automatic summarizing is that human users can better understand what happens. This improves acceptability. The basic empirical finding in hum...
Thing-oriented programming (TP) is an emerging programming model which overcomes some of the limitations of current practice in software development in general and of object-orient...