In pervasive computing environments, conditions are highly variable and resources are limited. In order to meet the needs of applications, systems must adapt dynamically to changi...
Farshad A. Samimi, Philip K. McKinley, Seyed Masou...
We introduce a framework, called "physicomimetics," that provides distributed control of large collections of mobile physical agents in sensor networks. The agents sense...
William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Jerry C. Haman...
In most distributed systems, naming of nodes for low-level communication leveragestopologicallocation(such as node addresses) and is independentof any application. In this paper, ...
John S. Heidemann, Fabio Silva, Chalermek Intanago...
The seamless and flexible interconnection of the existing and emerging protocols and networks is essential to the success of the new generation mobile applications and services. Fo...
Erkki Harjula, Jussi Ala-Kurikka, Douglas Howie, M...
Mobile agents are an emerging approach to develop distributed and parallel applications. They also can be exploited to develop enterprise applications, since they can act as activ...