—Ensuring spontaneous ad hoc interoperation in decentralized ubiquitous computing environments is challenging, because of heterogeneous resources and divergent policies. Centrali...
Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Peter L. Reiher, Leonard ...
Abstract. One of the key challenges faced when developing contextaware pervasive systems is to capture the set of inputs that we want a system to adapt to. Arbitrarily specifying r...
Adrian K. Clear, Ross Shannon, Thomas Holland, Aar...
— This paper explores a process-oriented approach to complex systems design, using massive fine-grained concurrency, mobile channels and mobile processes. The complex systems st...
—We present an intelligent agent crawler designed to collect user-generated content in Second Life and related virtual worlds. The agents navigate autonomously through the world ...
Policies form an important part of management and can be an effective means of implementing self-adaptation in pervasive systems. Most policy-based systems focus on large-scale ne...
Kevin P. Twidle, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Morris...