A micro-economic approach to conflict resolution in mobile computing

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 31-40

  Capra, Licia ^a   Emmerich, Wolfgang ^a   Mascolo, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflict resolution; Context awareness; Game theory; Middleware; Mobile computing; Reflection

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; METADATA; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CONFLICT RESOLUTION; CONTEXT AWARENESS; MICROECONOMIC APPROACH;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 0038687556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/587051.587057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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