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NCA
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Providing Hard Real-Time Guarantees in Context-Aware Applications: Challenges and Requirements
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...
Malika Boulkenafed, Barbara Hughes, René Me...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Improving collection selection with overlap awareness in P2P search engines
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...
DEBS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Availability models for underlay aware overlay networks
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...
Madhu Kumar SD, Umesh Bellur
PERCOM
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
CoWSAMI: Interface-aware context gathering in ambient intelligence environments
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...
Dionysis Athanasopoulos, Apostolos Zarras, Valéri...
EDBT
2009
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
An approach to detecting relevant updates to cached data using XML and active databases
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...
Essam Mansour, Hagen Höpfner