The emergence of portable computers and wireless technologies has introduced new challenges for middleware. Mobility brings new requirements and is becoming a key characteristic. M...
Abstract. It is an undeniable fact that people want information. Unfortunately, even in today's highly automated society, a lot of the information we desire is still manually ...
Y. F. Dong, Salil S. Kanhere, Chun Tung Chou, Niru...
Pervasive systems are complex distributed systems containing heterogeneous and mobile devices, services and applications. Policy-based management is an effective approach for mana...
In this paper, we propose two speculation-based methods for fast and accurate simulation-based performance and dependability analysis of complex systems, incorporating detailed si...
Yiqing Huang, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. ...
A pervasive system features a plethora of devices, services and applications organized as a large distributed system. One approach to managing such systems is by policies where ad...