The maintenanceofmaterializedviews in largescale environments composed of numerous heterogeneous information sources ISs, such as the WWW, has importance for the new breed of in...
Abstract. Context-aware systems incorporate multimodal information to analyze contextual information in users’ environment and provide various proactive services according to dyn...
Progressive processing plans allow systems to tradeoff computational resources against the quality of service by specifying alternative ways in which to accomplish each step. When ...
Shlomo Zilberstein, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib, Andrew A...
Pervasive computing requires the ability to detect user activity in order to provide situation-specific services. Case-based reasoning can be used for activity recognition by usin...
For most mobile networks, providers need the current position of their users to provide efficient service. The resulting motion data is not only an invaluable source for analyzing...
Sebastian Kay Belle, Marcel Waldvogel, Oliver Haas...