This paper proposes a way to realize the idea of calm computing by adding a dynamic task model into the pervasive computing environment. This task model contains information about...
Abstract. Computers support more and more tasks in the personal and professional activities of users. Such user tasks increasingly span large periods of time and many locations acr...
Fault tolerance is a constant concern in data centers where servers have to run with a minimal level of failures. Changes on the operating conditions or on server demands, and var...
Aimed to provide computation ubiquitously, pervasive computing is perceived as a means to provide a user the transparency of anywhere, anyplace, anytime computing. Pervasive compu...
K. Kalapriya, S. K. Nandy, Deepti Srinivasan, R. U...
Mobile systems operate in a resource-scarce environment and thus must adapt to external conditions; all layers must make cost-based decisions about what mode of operation to use i...