The proliferation of smart gadgets, appliances, mobile devices, PDAs and sensors has enabled the construction of ubiquitous computing environments, transforming regular physical s...
Jalal Al-Muhtadi, Anand Ranganathan, Roy H. Campbe...
We describe a virtual “tether” for mobile devices that allows groups to have quick, simple and privacy-preserving meetups. Our design provides cues which allow dynamic coordin...
John Williamson, Simon Robinson, Craig Stewart, Ro...
We consider a dynamic load balancing scenario in which users allocate resources in a non-cooperative and selfish fashion. The perceived performance of a resource for a user decre...
Heiner Ackermann, Simon Fischer, Martin Hoefer, Ma...
The Web3D technologies make it possible to create Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) in the popular Internet, thus promoting the popularity of CVE scientific applications to b...
Qingping Lin, Liang Zhang, Sun Ding, Guorui Feng, ...
This paper proposes the Middleware for Application Interconnection in Personal Area Networks (MAIPAN), a middleware that provides a uniform computing environment for creating dyna...