More and more software projects are using COTS (Commercialoff-the-shelf) components. Using COTS components brings both advantages and risks. To manage some risks in using COTS com...
As the use of the World Wide Web becomes more pervasive within our society, businesses and institutions are required to migrate a wide range of services to the web. Difficulties a...
Janet Lavery, Cornelia Boldyreff, Bin Ling, Colin ...
The current integrated developments in network and computing give rise to a technical infrastructure for the information society which one may variously circumscribe by terms such...
Ubicomp applications are characterized as situationaware, frequently-and-ephemerally-communicated and QoS-properties-associated. Using middleware to provide multiple QoS support f...
Stephen S. Yau, Yu Wang, Dazhi Huang, Hoh Peter In
Multiagent systems for mobile and pervasive computing should extensively exploit contextual information both to adapt to user needs and to enable autonomic behavior. This raises th...
Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli