Middleware: Context management in heterogeneous, evolving ubiquitous environments

IEEE Distributed Systems Online

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1-13

  De Rocha, Richardo Couto Antunes ^a,b,c,d,e   Endler, Markus ^a,b,c,d  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c ACM   (Brazil)

^d Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)   (Brazil)

^e Office 503 ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SUPERVISORY AND EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS;

CONTEXT MANAGEMENT; CONTEXT-WARE SERVICES; GENERIC CONTEXT; HETEROGENEITY;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 33745173818     PISSN: 15414922     EISSN: 15414922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MDSO.2006.28     Document Type: Article

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