—Application mobility is an efficient way to mask uneven conditioning and reduce users’ distractions in pervasive environments. However, since mobility brings more dynamism and...
Conventional concurrency control protocols are inapplicable in mobile broadcast environments due to a number of constraints of wireless communications. Previous studies are focuse...
Victor C. S. Lee, Kwok-Wa Lam, Sang Hyuk Son, Eddi...
This paper attempts to reduce the overheads of dynamically creating and destroying the virtual environments for secure job execution. It broaches a grid architecture which we call...
In this paper we present the RoleX environment for multi-agent systems. Born to support the management of role-based interactions, Rolex provides different services, in particular ...
We present an adaptive compression environment (ACE) that uses both underlying resource performance (network and CPU) predictions and the compressibility of the data stream to per...