This paper addresses the problem of establishing collaboration between devices in a home environment, even when no previous knowledge is known or stored on the devices. It focuses...
Distributed management of user profiles and identities allow reuse of profile information for different personalization services but also raises privacy issues. Users need a possi...
— Ubiquitous computing provides services to users, according to their current situation. Interactions with such programs are as implicit as possible. We find among the applicati...
-- The optimal buffer allocation in queueing network systems is a difficult stochastic, non-linear, integer mathematical programming problem. Moreover, the objective function, the ...
Frederico R. B. Cruz, A. R. Duarte, Tom Van Woense...
State-of-the-art security mechanisms are often enforced in isolation from each other, which limits the kinds of policies that can be enforced in distributed and heterogeneous sett...