In a wireless LAN environment, clients tend to associate with the nearest access point (AP) which usually provides the strongest signal. However, this does not guarantee that user...
Abstract. QoS-aware distributed applications such as certain Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing applications can benefit greatly from the provision of QoS guarantees from the unde...
Emergent processes are non-routine, collaborative business processes whose execution is guided by the knowledge that emerges during a process instance. In so far as the process go...
Abstract. We present a Mobile-Ambients-based process calculus to describe context-aware computing in an infrastructure-based Ubiquitous Computing setting. In our calculus, computin...
In an unpredictable, heterogeneous world, intelligent agents depend on accurate social information; reputation, among the preeminent artifacts to transmit social evaluations, has b...
Isaac Pinyol, Mario Paolucci, Jordi Sabater-Mir, R...