Component-based software structuring principles are now commonly and successfully applied at the application level; but componentisation is far less established when it comes to b...
Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, Paul Grace, Fran&c...
The Rocks toolkit [9], [7], [10] uses a graph-based framework to describe the configuration of all node types (termed appliances) that make up a complete cluster. With hundreds of...
Greg Bruno, Mason J. Katz, Federico D. Sacerdoti, ...
1 As distributed systems scale up and are deployed into increasingly sensitive settings, demand is rising for a new generation of communications middleware in support of applicati...
Ken Birman, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Danny Dolev, Tudo...
Enabling the ambient intelligence vision means that consumers will be provided with universal and immediate access to available content and services, together with ways of effectiv...
The Mobile Internet scenario encourages the design and development of context-aware applications that provide results depending on context information, such as the relative positi...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Alessandra Ton...