The world is increasingly equipped with high-capacity, interconnected, mobile and embedded computing devices. Context-awareness provides an attractive approach to personalize applications such that they better suit the user’s needs in this rich computing environment. Context-aware applications use context information, offered by context sources, to adapt their behavior to the situation at hand....

BACKGROUND The Ministry of Environment & Forests notified the Biomedical Waste (management & handling) Rules, 1998" (BMW Mgt) in July 1998. In accordance with the rules, every hospital generating BMW needs to set up requisite BMW treatment facilities on site or ensure requisite treatment of waste at common treatment facility. No untreated BMW shall be kept stored beyond a period of 48 hours. Th...

This document describes the complete specification of the architecture, services and protocols of the project CRUTIAL. The CRUTIAL Architecture intends to reply to a grand challenge of computer science and control engineering: how to achieve resilience of critical information infrastructures (CII), in particular in the electrical sector. In general lines, the document starts by presenting the m...

In order to maintain market position, one of the critical issues facing companies is how they can improve their commitment management. In this paper, the concept of commitment management is used to understand how suppliers and customers create mutual commitments in business agreements, and how these commitments are fulfilled. In a number of empirical case studies, commitment management problems...

This paper introduces a specific architecture including an infrastructural IP for functional verification and diagnostics, which is suitable for functional core-based testing of an MPEG4 SoC. Our advanced MPEG4 SoC results in a high complexity SoC with limited physical access to many different functional cores. The proposed test method provides direct monitoring and control for each core, which...

In this article some questions of testing of infrastructural Grid software on the standard compliance are discussed. Nowadays Grid-systems are one of the first-priority areas in computer science. The primary task is an effective usage of their advantages that is inseparably connected with the problem of software portability in Grid-systems. One of the simplest solutions of such problem is a dev...

The impact and significance of infrastructure development towards the economic growth of a country cannot be overemphasised. This is because it is a major component that is required to ensure an increase in domestic productivity and attract foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow. This study through the use of Ordinary Least Squares and Granger Causality econometric techniques investiages the in...

Due to consistent development, economic as well infrastructural, and a lot of lucrative opportunities in the cities, need for transportation has become very essential. India being developing country where population is on rise, there serious traffic issue. The problem congestion faced by most metro cities. In city like Pune, people converge every day their livelihood better standard living, pro...

This paper presents the architecture for a Base, a clustered environment for building and executing highly available, scalable, but exible and adaptable infrastructure services. Our architecture has three organizing principles: addressing all of the diÆcult service faulttolerance, availability, and consistency problems in a carefully controlled environment, building that environment out of a co...

This paper addresses issues related to how to enable broadest possible innovative activities by infrastructural technology design. In this paper, we focus on the development of high level services based on mobile telecommunication technologies which we for matters of simplicity term the development of a Mobile Internet. The focus of our analysis is how features of the technology itself enable o...