Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
Recent years have seen a growing interest in autonomic computing, an approach to providing systems with self managing properties [1]. Autonomic computing aims to address the incre...
Noel De Palma, Konstantin Popov, Nikos Parlavantza...
Developing pervasive computing applications is a difficult task because it requires to deal with a wide range of issues: heterogeneous devices, entity distribution, entity coordi...
Damien Cassou, Benjamin Bertran, Nicolas Loriant, ...
Pervasive computing applications must be engineered to provide unprecedented levels of flexibility in order to reconfigure and adapt in response to changes in computing resources ...
Service Oriented Programming - which combines Distributed Object Compunting, Component Based and webbased concepts - has recently emerged as a promising approach to develop dynami...
Domenico Cotroneo, Cristiano di Flora, Stefano Rus...