Abstract. The unprecedented growth and increased importance of geographically distributed spatial data has created a strong need for efficient sharing of such data. Interestingly, ...
Transactional memory (TM) is a scalable and concurrent way to build atomic sections. One aspect of TM that remains unclear is how side-effecting operations – that is, those whic...
We believe that to fully support adaptive distributed applications, middleware must itself be adaptable, adaptive and policy-free. In this paper we present a new language-independ...
Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, Stuart J. Norcros...
We describe the commercial application of agents to the handling of catalogue and stock-control for the selling of books on the internet. The primary characteristic of the target ...
Developing pervasive computing applications is a difficult task because it requires to deal with a wide range of issues: heterogeneous devices, entity distribution, entity coordi...
Damien Cassou, Benjamin Bertran, Nicolas Loriant, ...