With the prolific growth in usage of smartphones across the spectrum of people in the society it becomes mandatory to handle and configure these devices effectively to achieve optimum results from it. This paper proposes a context sensitive model termed COSMOS (COntext Sensitive MOdel for Smartphones) for configuring the smartphones using multifactor analysis with the help of decision trees. Th...

20 M A X P L A N C K R E S E A R C H 1 / 2 0 0 9 Nature shuns perfect symmetry. If it didn’t, the universe would contain no matter – only radiation. For half a century now, physicists have been searching for the reason behind this minor yet, for humans, essential departure from perfection. Three Nobel Prizes have already been awarded for partial successes, the last one in 2008. At the MAX PLANC...

Abstract I briefly discuss some attempts to construct a consistent modification to General Relativity (GR) that might explain the observed late-time acceleration of the universe and provide an alternative to dark energy. I mention the issues facing extensions to GR, illustrate these with two specific examples, and discuss the resulting observational and theoretical obstacles. This article compr...

Darks Miranda (Fortaleza, 1985) vive e trabalha no Rio de Janeiro. Autoficção incorporação forças obscuras cômicas incontroláveis, é uma entidade pastelão das trevas que equilibra frutas sobre a cabeça assombrada por suas antepassadas — todas origem duvidosa variada. Brota dos escombros da modernidade, sem ginga, desliza pelas camadas lodo acumuladas concreto ao longo tempos. Participou exposiç...

This paper presents a semantics-based dynamic service composition architecture that composes an application through combining distributed components based on the semantics of the components. This architecture consists of a component model called Component Service Model with Semantics (CoSMoS), a middleware called Component Runtime Environment (CoRE), and a service composition mechanism called S...