Pervasive systems are complex distributed systems containing heterogeneous and mobile devices, services and applications. Policy-based management is an effective approach for mana...
Abstract. The goal of mobile agent systems is to provide a distributed computing infrastructure supporting applications whose components can move between different execution enviro...
Sebastian Fischmeister, Giovanni Vigna, Richard A....
The efficiency of service discovery is critical in the development of fully decentralized middleware intended to manage large scale computational grids. This demand influenced t...
A new class of applications can now be envisaged with the emergence of both mobile ad hoc computing and ubiquitous computing. Applications of such kind are characterised by being ...
Hector A. Duran-Limon, Gordon S. Blair, Adrian Fri...
The ability to record and account for the usage of computational resources in a standardised way across different systems from multiple administrative domains is a precursor to wi...