A problem in Ubiquitous Computing environments is the coordination of a multitude of different devices. This paper presents the RAUM1 -system that provides the basis for communicat...
Abstract—The Special PRiority and Urgent Computing Environment (SPRUCE) provides on-demand access to highperformance computing resources for time-critical applications. While SPR...
The overall goal of this research is to improve the `environment awareness' aspect of personal autonomic computing. Personal Computing offers unique challenges for self-manag...
In this paper, we survey the role of virtual humans (or embodied conversational agents) in smart and ambient intelligence environments. Research in this area can profit from resea...
We investigate the use of a thin-client based configuration in providing students with universal access to a centralized, graphical computing environment. The primary goal is to ...