This paper proposes MISSA, a novel middleware to facilitate the development and provision of stream-based services in emerging pervasive environments. The streambased services util...
We consider the following fundamental scheduling problem. The input consists of n jobs to be scheduled on a set of machines of bounded capacities. Each job is associated with a re...
Self-adaptation is now a promising approach to maximize the satisfaction of requirements under changing environmental conditions. One of the key challenges for such self-adaptive s...
Franck Chauvel, Hui Song, Xiangping Chen, Gang Hua...
We describe techniques for direct pen+touch input. We observe people's manual behaviors with physical paper and notebooks. These serve as the foundation for a prototype Micro...
Ken Hinckley, Koji Yatani, Michel Pahud, Nicole Co...
In this paper we introduce tag expression, a novel form of preference elicitation that combines elements from tagging and rating systems. Tag expression enables users to apply aff...