The FlexiNet Platform is a Java middleware platform that features a component based ‘white-box’ approach with strong emphasis placed on reflection and introspection at all lev...
Developing requirements for software components, and ensuring these requirements are met by component designs, is very challenging, as very often application domain and stakeholde...
We consider the challenge of dynamically adapting services to context changes that occur in ubiquitous computing environments (e.g., changes in a user's activity) and propose ...
Cristian Hesselman, Andrew Tokmakoff, Pravin Pawar...
This paper presents the OpenDF framework and recalls that dataflow programming was once invented to address the problem of parallel computing. We discuss the problems with an impe...
Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Gordon J. Brebner, Jö...
Triangle inequality violations (TIVs) are important for latency sensitive distributed applications. On one hand, they can expose opportunities to improve network routing by findi...
Cristian Lumezanu, Randolph Baden, Neil Spring, Bo...