In this paper we show how an interactive system can be distributed among several peer devices. By taking advantage of the current trend towards ambient intelligent environments, w...
Modern society requires the public to have an increased knowledge of science beyond the basics, with average people needing to understand concepts in science, technology, engineer...
Christopher B. Stapleton, Eileen M. Smith, Charles...
One of the key steps in economy based grid resource allocation is to make reasonable prices for the grid resources. For resources’ prices decide the resource flow in the Grid, f...
A recent theoretical result proposed Sigma, a novel GM protocol that forms views using a singleround of message exchange. Prior GM protocols have required more rounds in the worst...
Context-aware applications rely on the ability to perceive the state of the surrounding environment. In this paper, we address a class of such applications where real-time guarant...