Mobile systems are gaining more and more importance, and new promising paradigms like
Mobile Cloud Computing are emerging. Mobile Cloud Computing provides an infrastructure …

Currently, mobile environments are gaining importance, and new promising paradigms, like
Mobile Cloud, are arising. However, these environments pose new challenges and are …

The quality attributes of services deployed on distributed system are critically conditioned by
their placement within the distributed system. To this regard, the host election process is one …

Ubiquitous environments present a dynamic network topology which implies frequent
context changes which can affect the availability of the services deployed in the system. In …

Ubiquitous environments present a series of specific challenges which must be faced in
order to obtain the full potential that this kind of environments can provide to assist human …

Abstract Mobile Cloud Computing paradigm has arisen as a major proposal to address
collaboration support in working environments. Particularly, this paradigm has proven to be …

Despite the increasing use of mobile computing, exploiting its full potential is difficult due to
its inherent characteristics such as error-prone transmission channels, diverse node …

Abstract Since Distributed Systems evolved to Mobile Systems, adaptation, and more
specifically selfadaptation, has been a fundamental requirement to successfully and …