Overload can reduce the overall performance of a computer system up to a point where the whole service might collapse. Thus, for example the load on a server must be controlled to...
Proactive contextual information systems help people locate information by automatically suggesting potentially relevant resources based on their current tasks or interests. Such ...
Daniel Billsus, David M. Hilbert, Dan Maynes-Aminz...
Ubiquitous computing systems can be regarded as open systems where heterogeneous and previously unknown entities may spontaneously interact, due to intrinsic mobility of users and...
monitoring indicators at different levels of abstraction. At the application level, it instruments the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to notify several different types of events trigge...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Cesare Stefanel...
In an open environment such as the Internet, the decision to collaborate with a stranger (e.g., by granting access to a resource) is often based on the characteristics (rather tha...