—Federation of geo-distributed cloud services is a trend in cloud computing which, by spanning multiple data centers at different geographical locations, can provide a cloud plat...
Yu Wu, Chuan Wu, Bo Li 0001, Linquan Zhang, Zongpe...
In this paper we present CoWSAMI, a middleware infrastructure that enables context awareness in open ambient intelligence environments, consisting of mobile users and context sour...
We propose group communication for agent coordination within “active rooms” and other pervasive computing scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unrelia...
Paolo Busetta, Mattia Merzi, Silvia Rossi, Fran&cc...
While distributed, heterogeneous collections of computers (“Grids”) can in principle be used as a computing platform, in practice the problems of first discovering and then co...
Chuang Liu, Lingyun Yang, Ian T. Foster, Dave Angu...
The widespread availability of devices with multiple wireless interfaces and the abundance of heterogeneous positioning techniques open new market potentials for Location Based Se...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Carlo Giannelli