With the exponential growth of communication and information technologies, adaptation has
gained a significant attention as it becomes a key feature of service-based systems, allowing …

Sensors of all kinds are being integrated with mobile and portable devices (tablets,
smartphones). This opens up the possibility of context-aware applications to effectively be …

Objectives: To present the principle of working of some of the widely used adaptive security
schemes in the domain of ubiquitous computing. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The main …

Currently, mobile applications have become increasingly complex. One trend is the usage of
contextual information gathered from device sensors and external data sources, which are …

Ubiquitous environments are often considered as highly dynamic environments and
contextual information can change at runtime. The user interface should provide the right …

Autonomous systems have to evolve in complex environments and their software must adapt
to various situations. Although it is common to anticipate adaptations at design time, it …

The increasing number of mobile devices allows users to access applications anytime and
anywhere. In such applications, location is a key information to improve the interaction …

The current trend of connecting the physical world with the so-called cyber world resulted in
paradigms such as the Internet of Things or the more general paradigm of Cyber-Physical …

The software for distributed intelligent systems, also known as Multi-agent Systems (MASs),
must possess the capability to comply with environmental constraints, such as norms, and …

In this thesis we proposed a proactive self-adaptation by integrating predictive analysis into
two phases of the software process. At design time, we propose a predictive modeling …