Context: Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) have emerged as a new paradigm to develop interoperable and highly dynamic applications. Objective: This paper aims to identify the s...
The incorporation of context-awareness capabilities into pervasive applications allows them to leverage contextual information to provide additional services while maintaining an ...
Zhimin Wang, Sebastian G. Elbaum, David S. Rosenbl...
This paper presents a world model for location-aware and user-aware services in ubiquitous computing environments. It can be dynamically organized like a tree based on geographica...
Currently, business requirements for rapid operational efficiency, customer responsiveness as well as rapid adaptability are driving the need for ever increasing communication and...
Pierre de Leusse, Theodosis Dimitrakos, David Bros...
Object replication is a common approach to enhance the availability of distributed data-intensive services and storage systems. Many such systems are known to have highly skewed o...