In this paper we show how an interactive system can be distributed among several peer devices. By taking advantage of the current trend towards ambient intelligent environments, w...
Grid information dissemination protocols distribute information about the dynamic state of computational resources throughout interconnected wide area Grids. Performance metrics f...
Bhavin Gandhi, Sameer Tilak, Michael J. Lewis, Nae...
Supporting high availability by checkpointing and switching to a backup upon failure of a primary has a cost. Trade-off studies help system architects to decide whether higher ava...
We present an analysis of privacy attitudes and practices in Instant Messaging based on responses to an online questionnaire. On a 7point Likert scale, the reported concern about ...
The possibility of building self-aware software fascinated computer scientist since the beginning of computer science. Research in AI, and in particular on software agents, agent s...