In this paper, we analyze the role of the social group in a Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) environment as a source of contextual information. A model is presented to address the s...
This work investigates the use of reconfigurable devices as computing platform for self-organizing embedded systems. Those usually consist of a set of distributed, autonomous node...
In ubiquitous networks, a lot of sensors and RFID readers will be connected to the networks as well as PCs and mobile phones are connected, and huge numbers of transactions are exp...
— Despite the automation in many domains, network management still requires a lot of manual interaction. With the ongoing rapid growth of the Internet and the number of connected...
Providing and managing security for large networked systems is difficult because their size and complexity makes manual design and management nearly impossible. Current security m...