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International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing

HUC 1999: Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing pp 380–382Cite as

QoS and Context Awareness for Mobile Computing

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Systems must support context awareness for mobile applications to permit adaptation to heterogeneity of hosts and networks, and variations in the user’s environment. We believe that context aware management of resources provides the most reliable basis for managing the non-deterministic behaviour of mobile systems.

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  1. Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, SW7 2BZ, UK

    Dan Chalmers & Morris Sloman

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  1. University of Karlsruhe, TecO (Telecooperation Office), Vincenz-Prieβnitz-Str. 1, D-76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Hans-W. Gellersen

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Chalmers, D., Sloman, M. (1999). QoS and Context Awareness for Mobile Computing. In: Gellersen, HW. (eds) Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing. HUC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1707. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48157-5_53

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