Ubiquitous Computing Environments feature massively distributed systems containing a large number of devices, services and applications that help end-users perform various kinds o...
Chetan Shiva Shankar, Anand Ranganathan, Roy H. Ca...
In this paper, we describe a new approach to the creation of virtual environments, which uses qualitative physics to implement object behaviour. We adopted Qualitative Process The...
Marc Cavazza, Simon Hartley, Jean-Luc Lugrin, Mika...
Abstract—Power management is an essential component of any electrical system, and nowadays a limiting factor in the miniaturization of portable electronic devices. Not only are t...
E. O. Torres, Min Chen, H. Pooya Forghani-zadeh, V...
Many reputation management systems have been developed under the assumption that each entity in the system will use a variant of the same scoring function. Much of the previous wo...
William Conner, Arun Iyengar, Thomas A. Mikalsen, ...
This paper presents an approach to integrate publish/subscribe semantics with on-demand multicast in wireless ad hoc networks, providing dynamic group communication with fine-gra...