Bluetooth is an open specification for short-range wireless communication and networking,
mainly intended to be a cable replacement between portable and/or fixed electronic devices …

A prosumer is a consumer who uses tiny, renewable electricity generation units and, in
addition to consumption, can also generate electricity. With the increase in the number of …

A declarative SQL-like language and a middleware infrastructure are presented for
collecting data from different nodes of a pervasive system. Data management is performed …

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and virtualization of physical resources are key
emerging technologies which are driving the interest of research both from industry and …

Pervasive systems are often made out of distributed software components that run on
different computational units (appliances, sensing and actuating devices, computers). Such …

This document presents a survey about autonomic computing. Autonomic computing allows
systems to manage themselves given the high-level objectives of administrators; it deals …

Complex pervasive systems are typically composed of a large number of heterogeneous
nodes, pervasively distributed across the environment. These systems pose several new …

A complex pervasive system is typically composed of many cooperating\emph {nodes},
running on machines with different capabilities, and pervasively distributed across the …

When dependability of systems with a large number of components is a concern, being able
to model and analyze their properties, especially non-functional ones, in a formal and …

The goals of flexibility and globalisation force enterprises to both decentralise their activities
and continuously (re) structure their network of relationships, to support their business …