Several recent proposals for an “active networks” architecture advocate the placement of user-defined computation within the network as a key mechanism to enable a wide range...
This paper analyses the collaborative design of a high-technology product, a neuromagnetometer used in the analysis of the activity of the human cortex. The producer, Neuromag Com...
Active networks allow their users to inject customized programs into the nodes of the network. An extreme case, in which we are most interested, replaces packets with “capsules...
Because of information ubiquity, one observes an important trend towards transferring information management tasks from database systems to networks. We introduce the notion of Da...