In pervasive computing environments, applications find themselves in constantly changing operating conditions. Such applications often need to discover locally available resources ...
Resource management is a fundamental concept in operating system design. In recent years it has become fashionable to consider the problem as an aspect of heterogeneous support fo...
Multimedia streaming application is increasingly popular. P2P mode makes it much more suitable for large-scale users to participate into one single application. However, most effor...
Open architecture networks provide applications with fine-grained control over network elements. With this control comes the risk of misuse and new challenges to security beyond th...
Abstract--The size, heterogeneity and dynamism of the execution platforms of scientific applications, like computational grids, make using those platforms complex. Furthermore, tod...