The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) project, supported by the NSF Middleware Initiative, aims at making scientific instruments and sensors remotely accessible by ...
Hao Yin, Donald F. McMullen, Mehmet A. Nacar, Marl...
Support of end-to-end Quality-of-Service (QoS) and ate high-level programming abstractions are two crucial factors for the development of future telecommunication services and dis...
In pervasive computing environments, changes in context may trigger changes in an individual’s access permissions. We contend that existing access control frameworks do not provi...
Adam J. Lee, Jodie P. Boyer, Chris Drexelius, Pras...
There are many application classes where the users are flexible with respect to the output quality. At the same time, there are other constraints, such as the need for real-time ...
Spatial abstractions promise to be basic necessary ingredients for a novel “spatial computing” approach to distributed systems development and management, suitable to tackle th...