A problem with many distributed applications is their behavior in lieu of unpredictable variations in user request volumes or in available resources. This paper explores a performa...
The vision of pervasive or ubiquitous computing, conceived by Mark Weiser, foresees a world where computing is embedded in every day objects. Such objects interact with each other...
—Job monitoring in Grid systems presents an important challenge due to Grid environments are volatile, heterogeneous, not reliable and are managed by different middlewares and mo...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has been increasingly gaining interest. P2P architectures are no longer just used for sharing music files over the InP2P middleware systems attempt to...
Roman Kurmanowytsch, Engin Kirda, Clemens Kerer, S...
Pervasive computing environments have traditionally used distributed sensors to gather user context. EPC (Electronic Product Code) information extracted from RFID tags could addit...