The telecommunications environment is changing its face towards an open market of information services where the vision is "information any time, at any place, in any form&qu...
—A variety of wireless network technologies have been developed and deployed, including GSM, UMTS, WiFi and WiMAX. The advantages of having an integrated heterogeneous wireless n...
High-performance execution in distributed computing environments often requires careful selection and configuration not only of computers, networks, and other resources but also o...
Steven Fitzgerald, Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, ...
Programming languages provide various mechanisms to support information hiding. One problem with information hiding, however, is that providing a stable interface behind which to ...
Despite many years of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) middleware research, deployment of such systems has not been widespread. We suggest this is in part because we lack a shared mo...