People enjoy the convenience of on-line services, Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), and pervasive computing, but online environments, ATMs, and pervasive computing may bring many r...
Ming Lei, Yang Xiao, Susan V. Vrbsky, Chung-Chih L...
Service providers as we know them nowadays are the always-on “static” web service providers, that aim at Five9 availability (99.999%). Formal, or de-facto, standards, such as ...
Networked devices for the storage and rendering of digital media are rapidly becoming ubiquitous in homes throughout the industrialized world. Existing approaches to home media con...
An efficient addressing scheme is necessary for auto-configuration and seamless communication in pervasive computing environments. In this paper, we propose an efficient and simple...
Software agents are one of the building blocks of ambient intelligence and pervasive computing. Adaptation to changes in the execution context is necessary in order to provide cont...