Complex systems are those systems composed of many, often very simple, interacting autonomous entities. Interactions between these entities give rise to behaviour and patterns at t...
—Autonomic computing is a paradigm that aims at reducing administrative overhead by providing autonomic managers to make applications self-managing. In order to better deal with ...
Ahmad Al-Shishtawy, Vladimir Vlassov, Per Brand, S...
Management in pervasive systems cannot rely on human intervention or centralised decision-making functions. It must be devolved, based on local decision-making and feedback contro...
Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho, Emil C. Lupu, Naranker...
Abstract— The emergence of future pervasive ICT environments, characterized by the massive proliferation of embedded electronic devices with communication and computing capabilit...
Abstract. Context awareness is a vital element in pervasive and ubiquitous systems. While most existing research has focused on designing context-aware systems to integrate into th...
As'ad Salkham, Raymond Cunningham, Aline Senart, V...