Half the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas by 2020. The high human density and changes in peoples’ consumption habits result in an everincreasing amount of...
Inbal Reif, Florian Alt, Juan David Hincapié...
Abstract— For resource management in Grid environments, advance reservations turned out to be very useful and hence are supported by a variety of Grid toolkits. However, failure ...
Automatically determining the situation of an ad-hoc group of people and devices within a smart environment is a significant challenge in pervasive computing systems. Current appr...
This paper describes how query formulation can be made simple and less complicated by using ontologies. It takes a brief look at several advantages of using ontologies in a distri...
To make practical ubiquitous computing environment for everyday activities especially for house and home, the environment has to be proactively managed by the users at home themsel...