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EEMMAS
2007
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Engineering Contextual Information for Pervasive Multiagent Systems
Multiagent systems for mobile and pervasive computing should extensively exploit contextual information both to adapt to user needs and to enable autonomic behavior. This raises th...
Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
ICDCS
2000
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Scheduling with Global Information in Distributed Systems
Buffered coscheduling is a distributed scheduling methodology for time-sharing communicating processes in a distributed system, e.g., PC cluster. The principle mechanisms involved...
Fabrizio Petrini, Wu-chun Feng
WMCSA
1999
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
'Caches in the Air': Disseminating Tourist Information in the Guide System
This paper describes work carried out as part of the GUIDE project at Lancaster University. The overall aim of the project is to develop a context-sensitive tourist guide for visi...
Nigel Davies, Keith Cheverst, Keith Mitchell, Adri...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Activity-based prototyping of ubicomp applications for long-lived, everyday human activities
We designed an activity-based prototyping process realized in the ActivityDesigner system that combines the theoretical framework of Activity-Centered Design with traditional iter...
Yang Li, James A. Landay
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HUC
2011
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Enabling large-scale human activity inference on smartphones using community similarity networks (csn)
Sensor-enabled smartphones are opening a new frontier in the development of mobile sensing applications. The recognition of human activities and context from sensor-data using cla...
Nicholas D. Lane, Ye Xu, Hong Lu, Shaohan Hu, Tanz...