Previous work has addressed the development of a framework to categorise and understand agent-based systems. It described and formalised an agent-hierarchy that included objects, ...
Location-based applications and services are getting increasingly important for mobile users. They take into account a mobile user's current location and provide a location-d...
Several recently proposed infrastructures permit client applications to interact with distributed network-accessible services by simply ”plugging in” into a substrate that pro...
Anca-Andreea Ivan, Josh Harman, Michael Allen, Vij...
—Within collaborative computing, computer mediated communications are evolving rapidly thanks to the development of new technologies. The facilitation of awareness and discovery ...
Commodity computer clusters are often composed of hundreds of computing nodes. These generally off-the-shelf systems are not designed for high reliability. Node failures therefore...