Pervasive computing provides an attractive vision for the future of computing. Mobile computing devices such as mobile phones together with a land-based and wireless communication ...
Peer-to-peer systems offer attractive system management properties, including the ability of components that join the network to self-organize; scalability up to tens of thousands...
One of the most challenging problems in Grid environments concerns the matchmaking between resource requests and offers. As it happens in the physical economy, Grid economy must b...
Konstantinos Kotis, George A. Vouros, Alexandros G...
Data services for the Grid have focussed so far primarily on virtualising access to distributed databases, and encapsulating file location. However, orchestration of services requ...
Andrew Woolf, Ray Cramer, Marta Gutierrez, Kerstin...
: The provisioning of location-specific services in medium-sized facilities like shopping malls, hospitals, and trade fares using WLAN access points or cellular phone systems has s...