Instant Messaging (IM) is a useful tool for collaborative work. However, the awareness and communication features of IM pose a tension with privacy desires. Inadequate support for...
Efficient mobility management is one of the major challenges for next-generation mobile systems. Indeed, a mobile node (MN) within an access network may cause excessive signaling t...
Self-adaptive software continually evaluates and modifies its own behavior to meet changing demands. One of the key issues in constructing such software is that of planning when a...
Abstract. Location is the most essential presence information for mobile users. In this paper, we present an improved time-based clustering technique for extracting significant lo...
As data volumes increase at a high speed in more and more application fields of science, engineering, information services, etc., the challenges posed by data-intensive computing...