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...
The control of overt visual attention relies on an interplay of bottom-up and top-down mechanisms. Purely bottom-up models may provide a reasonable account of the looking behaviors...
Grid computing is becoming the natural way to aggregate and share large sets of heterogeneous resources. With the infrastructure becoming ready for the challenge, current grid dev...
Combinatorial Auctions (CAs), where users bid on combination of items, have emerged as a useful tool for resource allocation in distributed systems. However, two main difficulties...
— The increasing heterogeneity, dynamism, and uncertainty of emerging DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) systems imply that an application must be able to detect and adapt t...