In dynamic heterogeneous environments, such as Pervasive Computing, context-aware adaptation is a key concept to meet the varying requirements of different clients. To enable such...
—Embedding small devices into everyday objects like toasters and coffee mugs creates a wireless network of objects. These embedded devices can contain a description of the underl...
Context awareness has emerged as an important element in distributed computing. It offers mechanisms that allow applications to be aware of their environment and enable these appl...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Remco Poortinga...
The understanding of complex environmental phenomena, such as deforestation and epidemics, requires observations at multiple scales. This scale dependency is not handled well by to...
Christoph Stasch, Krzysztof Janowicz, Arne Brö...
— In wireless local area networks (WLANs), quality of service (QoS) can be provided by mapping applications with different requirements (e.g., delay and throughput) into one of t...
Man Hon Cheung, Amir Hamed Mohsenian Rad, Vincent ...