In context-aware computing, distributed information about entities, such as people, places and objects, is captured and made available to applications, which utilize this context....
Designing computing equipment for a computer laboratory is not easy. In a class in a computer laboratory, it is not unusual that all students do the same thing simultaneously. Tre...
In this paper, we describe two mission critical applications currently deployed by Telecom Italia in the Operations Support System domains. The first one called "Network Neut...
Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
Large scale open, heterogeneous, distributed environments such as the Internet, are the environments in which (intelligent) agents need to be able to function and survive. These e...
Frances M. T. Brazier, David G. A. Mobach, Benno J...