Abstract-- Pervasive Computing refers to a seamless and invisible computing environment which provides dynamic, proactive and context-aware services to the user by acquiring contex...
Streaming media applications are becoming more popular on the late years, as for example, news transmitted live through the web, music, show, and films. Traditional client/server...
Marisa A. Vasconcelos, Leonardo C. da Rocha, Julia...
We present a new approach to the grid technology that is based on federated databases and updatable views. Views are used in two ways: (1) as wrappers of local servers that adopt l...
Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz S...
We introduce Grid Resources for Industrial Applications (GRIA), a project that aims to enable commercial use of the Grid. GRIA enables service providers to rent out spare CPU cycl...
Business matching and collaboration support systems are useful, in particular for small-and-medium companies. Most of them developed so far are based on the server-client architect...