With the advancement of technology in micro-electronics and wireless communication, small miniature devices called sensor nodes can be used to perform various tasks by forming the...
A. V. U. Phani Kumar, Adi Mallikarjuna Reddy V, D....
Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...
According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...
Business processes that span organizational borders describe the interaction between multiple parties working towards a common objective. They also express business rules that gov...
Alexander Lazovik, Marco Aiello, Mike P. Papazoglo...
This paper surveys a variety of subsystems designed to be the building blocks from which sophisticated infrastructures for ubiquitous computing are assembled. Our experience shows...
Martin Modahl, Bikash Agarwalla, Gregory D. Abowd,...