Applications for mobile devices have some restrictions because of the limited capabilities and heterogeneity of these devices. However, their communication capabilities allow the d...
This paper describes work in progress to develop a component-based software infrastructure, called Padico, for computational grids based on the CORBA Component Model from the OMG....
Context awareness has emerged as an important element in distributed computing. It offers mechanisms that allow applications to be aware of their environment and enable these appl...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Remco Poortinga...
Distributed Hashtables (DHTs) provide a scalable method of associating file-hashes with a particular location in a distributed network environment. Modifying DHTs directly to suppo...
The growing use of multimedia communication applications with specific bandwidth and real time delivery requirements has created the need for a new Internet in which traditional be...