Jini is a Java-based technology for 'spontaneous' distributed computing which enables programs to dynamically discover nearby services by means of a type-based lookup me...
Distributed cognition as an approach to collaborative work holds that a work unit is cognitive system in which cognitive activities are carried out jointly by workers with the use ...
Yan Xiao, Caterina Lasome, Jacqueline A. Moss, Col...
This paper explores the model of providing a common overlay structure management layer to assist the construction of large-scale wide-area Internet services. To this end, we propo...
Shareable data services providing consistency guarantees, such as atomicity (linearizability), make building distributed systems easier. However, combining linearizability with ef...
Chryssis Georgiou, Peter M. Musial, Alexander A. S...
During the recent years of research on mobile agents, significant effort has been directed towards the identification of models of agent mobility suitable for network management a...