A survey of software adaptation in mobile and ubiquitous computing

Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 355-389

  Kakousis, Konstantinos ^a   Paspallis, Nearchos ^a   Papadopoulos, George Angelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Adaptation acting; Adaptation reasoning; Context awareness; Dynamic software adaptation; Mobile computing; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION ACTING; ADAPTATION REASONING; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; CRITICAL EVALUATION; DYNAMIC SOFTWARE ADAPTATION; DYNAMIC SOFTWARES; ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE; MOBILE AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; RESOURCECONSTRAINED DEVICES; SOFTWARE ADAPTATION;

MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SURVEYS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 78049249447     PISSN: 17517575     EISSN: 17517583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17517575.2010.509814     Document Type: Article

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