Service providers as we know them nowadays are the always-on “static” web service providers, that aim at Five9 availability (99.999%). Formal, or de-facto, standards, such as ...
Main requirement of recent computing environments, like mobile and then ubiquitous computing, is to adapt applications to context. On the other hand, access control generally trus...
Vincent Hourdin, Jean-Yves Tigli, Stephane Lavirot...
Kimberley enables rapid software provisioning of fixed infrastructure for transient use by a mobile device. It uses virtual machine (VM) technology, but avoids the performance cha...
Adam Wolbach, Jan Harkes, Srinivas Chellappa, Maha...
— As the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles have gained importance, an emerging need has appeared for methodologies to locate desired services that provide access to ...
Mehmet S. Aktas, Sangyoon Oh, Geoffrey Fox, Marlon...
Context-aware systems allow users to access services and multimedia data according to their current context (location, identity, preferences). Web 2.0 fosters user contribution and...