Recently, social text streams (e.g., blogs, web forums, and emails) have become ubiquitous with the evolution of the web. In some sense, social text streams are sensors of the rea...
In this paper, we present a novel method to adapt the temporal radio maps for indoor location determination by offsetting the variational environmental factors using data mining t...
The ability to walk up to any computer, personalize it, and use it as one's own has long been a goal of mobile computing research. We present SoulPad, a new approach based on...
Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) present quite large packet loss bursts due to mobility. In this work we propose two models based on hidden Markov models for estimating packet arri...
Carlos Miguel Tavares Calafate, Pietro Manzoni, Ma...
Pervasive systems are complex distributed systems containing heterogeneous and mobile devices, services and applications. Policy-based management is an effective approach for mana...