Service Level Agreements for Cloud Computing provides a unique combination of business-
driven application scenarios and advanced research in the area of service-level agreements …

Sensor networks provide services to a broad range of applications ranging from intelligence
service surveillance to weather forecasting. While most of the sensor networks are terrestrial …

The influence of architecture in assurance of system safety is being increasingly recognised
in mission-critical software applications. Nevertheless, most architectural strategies have not …

Abstract Service-oriented architectures, and notably Web Services, are becoming an
incontrovertible paradigm for the development of applications in pervasive computing …

Software architecture specifications are used for many different purposes, such as
documenting architectural decisions, predicting architectural qualities before the system is …

Selecting an optimal web service among a list of functionally equivalent web services still
remains a challenging issue. For Internet services, the presence of low-performance servers …

Context-awareness can serve to make ubiquitous applications deployed for mobile devices
adaptive, personalized, and accessible in dynamically changing environments …

The potential of communication networks and middleware to enable the composition of
services across organizational boundaries remains incompletely realized. In this paper, we …

The Amigo project aims to develop a networked home system enabling the ambient
intelligence/pervasive computing vision by effectively integrating devices and their hosted …

Pervasive computing environments involve a variety of smart devices and home appliances.
Communities of these devices form a ubiquitous information processing system to which the …