Automatically determining the situation of an ad-hoc group of people and devices within a smart environment is a significant challenge in pervasive computing systems. Current appr...
We consider an SLA (Service Level Agreement) committed between two parties to use the guarantee of QoS provided by a QoS Enabled Network (QEN). QEN can provide guarantee of QoS bec...
—The system architecture presented in this paper is designed for helping an aged person to live longer independently in their own home by detecting unusual and potentially hazard...
We introduce a framework, called "physicomimetics," that provides distributed control of large collections of mobile physical agents in sensor networks. The agents sense...
William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Jerry C. Haman...
Java is typically compiled into an intermediate language, JVML, that is interpreted by the Java Virtual Machine. Because mobile JVML code is not always trusted, a bytecode verifi...