—Efficient management of massive data sets is a key aspect in typical grid and e-science applications. To this end, the benefits of employing database technologies in such appl...
— The increasing availability of sensing devices has made the possibility of context-aware pervasive computing applications real. However, constructing this software requires ext...
Context-awareness has become a distinguishing feature of Ubiquitous systems. Contrary to desktop and web applications, Ubiquitous applications gather environmental context and pro...
This paper provides four contributions to the study of optimization techniques for component-based distributed realtime and embedded (DRE) systems. First, we describe key challeng...
Web services are todays preferred vehicle for creating service-oriented architectures (SOA). Due to the boom of personal networked devices, the Web also found its way to the mobil...