A phenomenon appears in a sensor network when a group of sensors persist to generate similar behavior over a period of time. PhenomenaBases (or databases of phenomena) are equippe...
Topology maintenance, or how to handle the possibly concurrent joining and leaving of nodes, is a central problem for structured peer-to-peer networks. A good topology maintenance...
Long-running applications such as network services require continuous uptime but also frequent changes to the software. To avoid downtime for software maintenance, applications mu...
The notion of aspect is important as a systematic approach to the representation of cross-cutting concerns and the incremental additions of new functionalities to an existing syst...
A smooth orchestrator is a process with several alternative branches, every one defining synchronizations among co-located channels. Smooth orchestrators constitute a basic mechani...