Context-aware applications rely on the ability to perceive the state of the surrounding environment. In this paper, we address a class of such applications where real-time guarant...
Collection selection has been a research issue for years. Typically, in related work, precomputed statistics are employed in order to estimate the expected result quality of each ...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafi...
Availability of an overlay network is a necessary condition for event delivery in event based systems. The availability of the overlay links depends on the underlying physical net...
In this paper we present CoWSAMI, a middleware infrastructure that enables context awareness in open ambient intelligence environments, consisting of mobile users and context sour...
Client/server information systems use caching techniques to reduce the volume of transmitted data as well as response time and, especially in the case of systems with mobile clien...