An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
In the Ad-Hoc InfoWare project, we develop a delay tolerant event notification service for sparse Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks for emergency and rescue operations. In most event notific...
Anna K. Lekova, Katrine Stemland Skjelsvik, Thomas...
In ubiquitous computing environments, contextawareness is one of the most important research topics. Computers embedded in our surrounding can extract information about a user, an...
We propose an adaptive middleware design for context-aware applications that abstracts the applications from the sensors that provide context. Further, we use application-specifi...