Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...
Abstract. Computer mobility allows people to use computers in varied and changing environments. This variability forces applications to adapt thus requiring awareness of the comput...
The Multimedia Internet Terminal (MINT)1 is a flexible multimedia tool set that allows the establishment and control of multimedia sessions across the Internet. The system archit...
Many reputation management systems have been developed under the assumption that each entity in the system will use a variant of the same scoring function. Much of the previous wo...
William Conner, Arun Iyengar, Thomas A. Mikalsen, ...
—One of the challenges of ambient systems lies in providing all the available services of the environment to the ambient devices, even if they do not physically host those servic...