We describe the goals and architecture of a new framework that aims at facilitating the deployment of adaptation services running on intermediate edge servers. The main goal is to...
In recent times a new kind of computing system has emerged: a distributed infrastructure composed of multiple physical sites in different administrative domains. This model introd...
Stephen Childs, Marco Emilio Poleggi, Charles Loom...
Abstract. Grids are very complex and volatile infrastructures that exhibit parallel and distributed characteristics. To harness their complexity as well as the increasing intricacy...
—Large scale production grids are an important case for autonomic computing. They follow a mutualization paradigm: decision-making (human or automatic) is distributed and largely...
This paper describes an agent-based architecture that extends personal mobility to ubiquitous environment. A software agent, running on a portable device, leverages the existing se...