: The paper presents a hard real-time kernel for distributed computer control systems (DCCS) highlighting a number of novel features, such as integrated scheduling of hard and soft...
Pervasive computing environment and users’ demand for multimedia personalization precipitate a need for personalization tools to help people access desired multimedia content at ...
Systems must provide for mobile applications to be aware of the context in which they are being used. This is necessary to permit adaptation to heterogeneity of hosts and networks...
With the increasing ubiquity of sensors and computational resources, it is becoming easier and increasingly common for people to electronically record, photographs, text, audio, a...
In this paper, we introduce the combinatorial auction model for resource management in grids. We propose a combinatorial auction-based resource allocation protocol in which a user...