Context awareness has emerged as an important element in distributed computing. It offers mechanisms that allow applications to be aware of their environment and enable these appl...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Remco Poortinga...
Ontologies provide a means of modelling and representing a knowledge domain. Such representation, already used in purpose-built distributed information systems, can also be of gre...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
t Abstract Machine for Safe Ambients Daniel Hirschkoff1 , Damien Pous1 , and Davide Sangiorgi2 1 ENS Lyon, France 2 Universit`a di Bologna, Italy Abstract. We describe an abstract...
Emerging trust and risk management systems provide a framework for principals to determine whether they will exchange resources, without requiring a complete definition of their ...
This paper presents the design of Mercury, a scalable protocol for supporting multi-attribute rangebased searches. Mercury differs from previous range-based query systems in that...
Ashwin R. Bharambe, Mukesh Agrawal, Srinivasan Ses...