To address the need for highly configurable and customizable distributed systems, researchers and practitioners are investigating various innovative approaches. One of the promisi...
There is considerable interest in developing runtime infrastructures for programs that can migrate from one host to another. Mobile programs are appealing because they support efï...
Pervasive computing applications are tedious to develop because they combine a number of problems ranging from device heterogeneity, to middleware constraints, to lack of programm...
Charles Consel, Wilfried Jouve, Julien Lancia, Nic...
Component-based architectures are the traditional approach cile application specific optimization with reusable abstractions in sensor networks. However, they frequently overwhelm ...
Wireless networks are an ideal environment for mobile agents, because their mobility allows them to move across an unreliable link to reside on a wired host, next to or closer to ...
David Kotz, Guofei Jiang, Robert S. Gray, George C...