CloudAware: Empowering context-aware self-adaptation for mobile applications

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Orsini, Gabriel ^a   Bade, Dirk ^a   Lamersdorf, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; EDGE COMPUTING; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES;

APPLICATION SCENARIO; ELECTROTECHNICAL; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATIONS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; USER EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS;

MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 85045095451     PISSN: 21615748     EISSN: 21613915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ett.3210     Document Type: Article

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