In a mobile computing system, users carrying portable devices can access database services from any location without requiring a fixed position in the networking environment. Some ...
We describe a technique for writing distributed applications which manage themselves over one or more utility computing infrastructures: by dynamically acquiring new computational...
Qin Yin, Justin Cappos, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Ro...
Enterprise environments have isolated teams responsible separately for database management and the management of underlying networkattached server-storage infrastructure (referred...
Abstract. We have recently witnessed a growing interest in self organising systems, both in research and in practice. These systems re-organise in response to new or changing condi...
Stefanos Zachariadis, Cecilia Mascolo, Wolfgang Em...
In this paper we consider the problem of managing and exploiting schedules in an uncertain and distributed environment. We assume a team of collaborative agents, each responsible ...
Stephen F. Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Terry L. Zimm...