Federated broker system for pervasive context provisioning

SL Kiani, A Anjum, M Knappmeyer, N Bessis… - Journal of Systems and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Software systems that provide context-awareness related functions in pervasive computing
environments are gaining momentum due to emerging applications, architectures and …

Effects of protonation on the hydrolysis of triphosphate in vacuum and the implications for catalysis by nucleotide hydrolyzing enzymes

FA Kiani, S Fischer - BMC biochemistry, 2016 - Springer
Background Nucleoside triphosphate (NTP) hydrolysis is a key reaction in biology. It
involves breaking two very stable bonds (one P–O bond and one O–H bond of water), in …

Context-aware service utilisation in the clouds and energy conservation

SL Kiani, A Anjum, N Antonopoulos… - Journal of Ambient …, 2014 - Springer
Ubiquitous computing environments are characterised by smart, interconnected artefacts
embedded in our physical world that provide useful services to human inhabitants …

Large-scale context-aware system in smart spaces: Issues and challenges

SL Kiani, B Moltchanov… - 2011 Baltic Congress …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smart spaces are characterised by availability of information from digital artifacts embedded
in the environment and network services that unobtrusively enhance our interaction with the …

Performance simulation of a context provisioning middleware based on empirical measurements

ES Reetz, M Knappmeyer, SL Kiani, A Anjum… - … Modelling Practice and …, 2013 - Elsevier
The evaluation of context middleware systems is a challenging endeavour. On the one
hand, testbed investigations suffer from an unrealistic environment in terms of number of …

Towards Context Caches in the Clouds

SL Kiani, A Anjum, K Munir… - 2011 Fourth IEEE …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Context information is traditionally collected from distributed digital artifacts and services and
made available to similarly distributed, and often mobile, context consuming applications via …

Performance evaluation of a context provisioning middleware

ES Reetz, M Knappmeyer, SL Kiani… - 2012 International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The evaluation of context middleware systems is a challenging endeavour. Testbed
investigations suffer from an unrealistic environment in terms of number of users, high …

Analysis of the energy conservation aspects of a mobile context broker

SL Kiani, B Moltchanov, M Knappmeyer… - Smart Spaces and Next …, 2011 - Springer
Mobile devices are increasingly becoming the main mean of interaction for inhabitants of
ubiquitous computing environments. Pervasiveness of these devices as users' personal …

[PDF][PDF] Substance cache mechanism in the cloud by using Substance Provisioning Framework

SK Hase, MB Vaidya - Citeseer
The substance (context) information in the context-aware systems may be about human,
entity and computing situations has a powerful temporal aspect ie for a specific period of …

[PDF][PDF] Simulat ion Modelling Practice and Theory

ES Reetz, M Knappmeyer, SL Kiani… - … Practice and Theory, 2013 - anjum.web.cern.ch
abstract The evaluation of context middleware systems is a challenging endeavour. On the
one hand, testbed investigations suffer from an unrealistic environment in terms of number of …