: A distributed service to model and control contextual information in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments is presented in this paper. We introduce the general user model ...
Abstract--After the seminal work by Taqqu et al. relating selfsimilarity to heavy-tailed distributions, a number of research articles verified that aggregated Internet traffic time...
The low-cost, off-the-shelf hardware components in unshielded sensor-network nodes leave them vulnerable to compromise. With little effort, an adversary may capture nodes, analyze...
The High Level Architecture (HLA) is a standard for the interoperability and reuse of simulation components, referred to as federates. Large scale HLA-compliant simulations are bu...
This paper presents a separation of concerns approach to solve the tangling problem of functional and Quality of Service (QoS) concerns in traditional Component-based Software Eng...