Clusters of networked, off-the-shelf workstations are currently used for computationintensive, parallel applications. However, it is hardly possible to predict the timing behaviou...
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...
This paper presents a framework for context-aware applications, with a particular focus on collaboration and pervasiveness. The framework relies on distributed ontologies, which ar...
This paper describes a new mechanism to garantee quality of service for multimedia streams in low-cost home networks. Quality of service is based on a token, of which the route in...
Hans Scholten, Pierre G. Jansen, Ferdy Hanssen, Pi...
The paper focuses on software distribution over the Internet, points to weaknesses of the current practice and argues for removing the weaknesses by introducing a ubiquitous distr...