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APNOMS
2007
Springer
16 years 14 days ago
Standby Power Control Architecture in Context-Aware Home Networks
Standby power is the energy consumed by appliances when they are not performing their main functions or when they are switched off. In this paper, we propose a Host-Agent based sta...
Joon Heo, Jihyuk Heo, Choong Seon Hong, Seok Bong ...
NCA
2006
IEEE
16 years 8 days ago
Network-Aware Adaptation Techniques for Mobile File Systems
Wireless networks present unusual challenges for mobile file system clients, since they are characterised by unpredictable connectivity and widely-varying bandwidth. The traditio...
Benjamin Atkin, Kenneth P. Birman
EUC
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Q-MAR: An Adaptive QoS Management Model for Situation-Aware Middleware
A situation-aware middleware provides standardized communication protocols to interoperate an application with others under dynamically changing situations. Since the application n...
Hoh Peter In, ChangHwa Kim, Stephen S. Yau
AH
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Providing Tailored (Context-Aware) Information to City Visitors
The GUIDE system has been developed in order to provide city visitors with an intelligent and context-aware tourist guide. The system has been deployed in the city of Lancaster an...
Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell, Paul...
GROUP
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Unpacking the social dimension of external interruptions
The paper systematically explores the social dimension of external interruptions of human activities. Interruptions and interruption handling are key issues in human-computer inte...
Rikard Harr, Victor Kaptelinin