Context awareness is a core feature of modern mobile and ubiquitous computing systems.
Although it has not reached its full potential yet, one can already observe significant activity …

Driven by the proliferation of mobile and pervasive computing, there is a growing demand
for context-aware, self-adaptive applications. Such applications benefit users by dynamically …

Computing is currently getting at the same time incredibly in the small with sensors/actuators
embedded in our every-day objects and also greatly in the large with data and ser-vice …

In a delay tolerant network (DTN), nodes are connected intermittently and the future node
connections are mostly unknown. Since in these networks, a fully connected path from …

Although the landscape of mobile devices is continuously evolving towards more powerful
terminals, the limitations regarding processing power, memory capacity and speed, network …

Ubiquitous computing and service-oriented computing enable the development of a new
trend of applications that can opportunely interact with services discovered in the …

Adaptation of a component-based system can be achieved in the coordination modeling
language Paradigm through the special component McPal. McPal regulates the propagation …

Modern trends in mobile computing have raised the expectations of users in terms of such
features such as context-awareness and self-adaptiveness. With such capabilities …

The emergence of open, composable Internet services and mashups means that services
cannot be composed in a centralised manner. Despite this, cross-cutting constraints might …

The growing complexity of applications has enforced the need for separation concern and
modularity. These requirements become critical when considering self-adaptive mobile …