The trends for pushing more operational intelligence towards network elements to achieve
more context-aware and self-managing behavior often requires elements to gather network …

Laws have been used to deal with theoretical and practical issues regarding notions of
openness and unpredictably of open multiagent systems. In order to achieve a higher …

Regardless of which networking protocols or technologies form the core of the future Internet
it is clear that the environment as a whole will need to support a very broad range of …

A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and
information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emerging …

This paper presents some important directions in the use of ontology-based semantics in
achieving the vision of Autonomic Communications. We examine the requirements of …

Pervasive computing environments need to exhibit highly adaptive behavior to meet the
changing task requirements and operational context of visiting mobile users. However this …

Ubiquitous computing environments have the potential to provide rich sources of information
about a user and their surroundings. However, the nature of context information means that …

This book supplies an unprecedented look at the latest research on the networking and
communication aspects of Big Data. Starting with a comprehensive introduction to Big Data …

Autonomic systems are needed to self-manage the increasing complexity of pervasive
communications access and the ubiquitous computing services it offers to humans. Policy …

It is possible to impose the will of the user or administrator through the specification of
policies. These policies reflect the users or administrators goals; however the context in …