Many decentralized and peer-to-peer applications require some sort of data management. Besides P2P file-sharing, there are already scenarios (e.g. BRICKS project [3]) that need m...
We consider pervasive computing applications that process and aggregate data-streams emanating from highly distributed data sources to produce a stream of updates that have an imp...
The provisioning of Ambient Services is gaining importance as users become more and more embedded in environments that are saturated with electronic devices. In our previous work,...
Filtering denotes any method whereby an agent updates its belief state--its knowledge of the state of the world--from a sequence of actions and observations. In logical filtering,...
—Application mobility is an efficient way to mask uneven conditioning and reduce users’ distractions in pervasive environments. However, since mobility brings more dynamism and...