In recent years, the Internet has emerged as an important collaborative platform. Many applications utilize the Internet to provide new kinds of services. Among others, Internet t...
In this paper we discuss the dynamic network characteristics of mobile ad hoc networks, and explore problems that arise when attempting to provide QoS support in this environment....
We present our experience of building a prototype system based on the Utility Model for adaptive multimedia. The Utility Model is proposed to capture the issues and dynamics in mul...
Lei Chen, Shahadat Khan, Kin F. Li, Eric G. Mannin...
The paper describes a metaobject architecture for distributed fault tolerant systems. Basically metaobject protocols enables functional objects to be independent from meta-function...
This paper describes an environment for interactive configuration management of the software components comprising a distributed enterprise application. The environment permits on...