Abstract--The inadequate quality of context forces the context consumers in pervasive environments to reason about the quality and relevance of context to be confident of its worth...
Atif Manzoor, Hong Linh Truong, Christoph Dorn, Sc...
Motivated by the need to reason about utilities, and inspired by the success of bayesian networks in representing and reasoning about probabilities, we introduce the notion of uti...
Utilization bounds for schedulability of aperiodic tasks are new in real-time scheduling literature. All aperiodic bounds known to date apply only to independent tasks. They eithe...
Let be a preference relation on a convex set F. Necessary and sufficient conditions are given that guarantee the existence of a set {ul} of affine utility functions on F such th...
Utility computing is a service provisioning model which will provide adaptive, flexible and simple access to computing resources, enabling a pay-per-use model for computing simila...