This paper presents a loosely coupled service-composition paradigm. This paradigm employs a distributed data flow that differs markedly from centralized information flow adopted b...
David Liu, Jun Peng, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
Imagine a future environment where networks of agents - people, robots and software agents - interact with sophisticated sensor grids and environmental actuators to provide advice,...
Mobility is redefining the hardware and software fabric of distributed systems. Wireless communication allows network hosts to participate in a distributed computation while on t...
Mobile software agents are an increasingly important programming model within the World Wide Web (WWW). Typically programmed in Java or another machine- independent language, the ...
In dynamic heterogeneous environments, such as Pervasive Computing, context-aware adaptation is a key concept to meet the varying requirements of different clients. To enable such...