Advance Reservations(AR) make it possible to guarantee the QoS of Grid applications by reserving a particular resource capability over a defined time interval on local resources. H...
— Often document dissemination is limited to a “need to know” basis so as to better maintain organizational trade secrets. Retrieving documents that are off-topic to a user...
Abstract. With the continuously growing number of distributed and heterogeneous IT systems there is the need for structured and efficient identity management (IdM) processes. This ...
The user profile is one of the main context-information in a wide range of pervasive computing applications. Modern handheld devices provided with localization capabilities could a...
This paper describes a general methodology for automated recognition of complex human activities. The methodology uses a context-free grammar (CFG) based representation scheme to ...