Current speech-act based ACLs specify domain-independent information about communication and relegate domain-dependent information to an unspecified content language. This is reas...
The increasing popularity of personal wireless devices has raised new demands for the efficient discovery of heterogeneous devices and services in pervasive environments. With the...
Ayomi Bandara, Terry R. Payne, David De Roure, Nic...
Abstract—Home area networks (HANs) promise to enable sophisticated home automation applications such as smart energy usage and assisted living. However, recent empirical study of...
Message passing using libraries implementing the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard is the dominant communication mechanism in high performance computing (HPC) applications. ...
Robert Palmer, Michael Delisi, Ganesh Gopalakrishn...
Current object-oriented approaches to distributed programs may be criticized in several respects. First, method calls are generally synchronous, which leads to much waiting in dis...