The availability of web search has revolutionised the way people discover information, yet as search services maintain larger and larger indexes they are in danger of becoming a v...
Ubiquitous access to sophisticated internet services from diverse end devices across heterogeneous networks requires the injection of additional functionality into the network to ...
Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code...
Francis M. David, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, Roy H. Campb...
Nowadays, the rapid advances in wireless communications, positioning techniques and mobile devices enable location based service such as dynamic traffic navigation. Yet, it is a ch...
Yun Bai, Yanyan Guo, Xiaofeng Meng, Tao Wan, Karin...
Pervasive systems require context awareness in order to be able to provide “anywhere, anytime” computing to mobile users. One type of context information is location informati...