— Future mobile communications systems demand for higher data rates and service quality compared to state-of-the-art systems. One way to achieve this ambitious goal is to use rel...
This chapter describes Hume: a functionally-based language for programming with bounded resource usage, including time and space properties. The purpose of the Hume language design...
In order to support the navigation in huge document collections efficiently, tagged hierarchical structures can be used. Often, multiple tags are used to describe resources. For u...
Allocating resources in networks to QoS flows may require undesirable delays or costs. We consider a dynamic Service Level Agreement (SLA) negotiation scheme between peer autonomo...
— This paper proposes a service discovery protocol for sensor networks that is specifically tailored for use in humancentered pervasive environments. It uses the high-level conc...