Abstract— The paper presents a location-aware communication approach in smart home environments. It is constructed on a symbolic location model to represent the containment relat...
The portability of new miniaturized devices, together with their ability to connect conveniently to networks in different places, makes mobile computing possible. Recent advances ...
We consider the challenge of dynamically adapting services to context changes that occur in ubiquitous computing environments (e.g., changes in a user's activity) and propose ...
Cristian Hesselman, Andrew Tokmakoff, Pravin Pawar...
: Changing business requirements such as providing new business services lead to an ongoing need for fast and flexible adaptation of the underlying information systems and infrastr...
Leasing computational resources for on-demand computing is now a viable option for providers of network services. Temporary spikes or lulls in demand for a service can be accommod...