These last years, the evolution of nomadic terminals and mobile networks has yield to the development of the ubiquitous computing. In this context, actual query evaluation and opt...
The paper describes research that has been carried out in “extrovert-Gadgets”, a research project funded in the context of EU IST/FET proactive initiative “Disappearing Comp...
Achilles Kameas, Stephen J. Bellis, Irene Mavromma...
Delivering data to on-line game participants requires the game data to be "customized" in real-time to each participant's characteristics. Using multicast in such a...
Manuel M. Oliveira, Jon Crowcroft, Christophe Diot
{ Traditional computer applications have been designed to be run by one user at a time who does some work in a single medium, such as ASCII text, and very little regard has been gi...
Threads provide a useful programming model for asynchronous behavior because of their ability to encapsulate units of work that can then be scheduled for execution at runtime, bas...