Context awareness has emerged as an important element in distributed computing. It offers mechanisms that allow applications to be aware of their environment and enable these appl...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Remco Poortinga...
In this work we propose and develop a comprehensive infrastructure, coined PastryStrings, for supporting rich queries on both numerical (with range, and comparison predicates) and...
Streamlining communication is key to achieving good performance in shared-memory parallel programs. While full hardware support for cache coherence generally offers the best perfo...
We present a framework for integrated scheduling of continuous media (CM) and other applications. The framework, called ARC scheduling, consists of a rate-controlled on-line CPU sc...
The role of ontologies in knowledge base systems is gradually increasing. Along with the growth of Internet based applications and ecommerce, the need for easy interoperability bet...