The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is used extensively in ubiquitous computing environments. Using external service orchestration, services can be composed into applications....
Applications designed to execute on "computational grids" frequently require the simultaneous co-allocation of multiple resources in order to meet performance requiremen...
Wireless Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols such as IEEE 802.11 use distributed contention resolution mechanisms for sharing the wireless channel. In this environment, selfish...
In this paper we present PAMINA (Privilege Administration and Management INfrAstructure), a privilege management system using authorization certificates. Our system supports distr...
In this paper we present a methodology and set of tools which assist the construction of applications from components, by separating the issues of transmission policy from compone...
Scott M. Walker, Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, ...