In an open distributed system, computational resources are peer-owned, and distributed over time and space. The fact that these resources can dynamically join or leave the system (...
This article outlines several projects aimed at generating electrical energy by passively tapping a variety of human body sources and activities. After summarizing different energ...
Fault-tolerant mobile computing systems have different requirements and restrictions, not taken into account by conventional distributed systems. This paper presents a coordinate...
Sensor networks are expected to evolve into long-lived, autonomous networked systems whose main mission is to provide in-situ users ? called actors ? with real-time information in...
Ferruccio Barsi, Alfredo Navarra, Maria Cristina P...