A pervasive virtual instructor is an artificially intelligent instructor that may appear transparent to the learner or appear in the form of a threedimensional graphical character...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are based upon the cooperative interactions of member peers. Typically, peers are both autonomous and self-interested, meaning that there is no hierarch...
1 Data distribution and replication in distributed systems require special purpose middleware tools for accessing replicated data. Data Grids, special forms of a systems distribute...
We present a new approach for the management and enactment of deployment process by a deployment processor ORYA (Open enviRonment to deploY Applications). ORYA aims to integrate te...
Cloud services accessed through mobile devices suffer from high network access latencies and are constrained by energy budgets dictated by the devices’ batteries. Radio and batt...