Pervasive applications rely on data captured from the physical world through sensor devices. Data provided by these devices, however, tend to be unreliable. The data must, therefor...
Shawn R. Jeffery, Gustavo Alonso, Michael J. Frank...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are slowly moving from application-specific architectures to a generic serviceoriented design framework. The idea is to allow a dynamic collection of P...
The performance skeleton of an application is a short running program whose execution time in any scenario reflects the estimated execution time of the application it represents....
: A Peer-to-peer Data Network (PDN) is an open and evolving society of peer nodes that assemble into a network to share their data for mutual benefit. PDNs are enabled by distribu...
Parallel programming continues to be difficult, despite substantial and ongoing research aimed at making it tractable. Especially dismaying is the gulf between theory and the pract...