Abstract. Communication, a fundamental concept in computing, allows two pieces of software to interact and to exchange information. It is an important aspect of mobile agent system...
In this paper we propose a new resource discovery protocol, REALTOR, which is based on a combination of pullbased and push-based resource information dissemination. REALTOR has be...
Abstract--Applications involving the dissemination of information directly relevant to humans (e.g., service advertising, news spreading, environmental alerts) often rely on publis...
Paolo Costa, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi, Gian...
In this paper, we present techniques for exploiting intermittently available resources in grid infrastructures to support QoS-based multimedia applications on mobile devices. Spec...
The present paper shows how vertical actuation alone may be used to effectively control the spatial distribution of mobile vehicles ("balloons" in air, or "drifters&...