Characterizing the relationship that exists between a person's social group and his/her personal behavior has been a long standing goal of social network analysts. In this pa...
Today's user is surrounded by mobile appliances that continuously disrupt his activities through instant message, email and phone call notifications. In this paper, we presen...
— The Computational Resiliency library (CRLib) provides distributed systems with the ability to sustain operation and dynamically restore the level of assurance in system functio...
Integrating multiple functions into one communication user agent can introduce many innovative communication services. For example, with networked appliance control, a user agent c...
Monitoring and management operations that query nodes based on their availability can be extremely useful in a variety of largescale distributed systems containing hundreds to thou...