A peer-to-peer (P2P) data management system consists essentially of a network of peer systems, each maintaining full autonomy over its own data resources. Data exchange between pe...
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...
The recent success of Internet-based computing projects, coupled with rapid developments in peer-to-peer systems, has stimulated interest in the notion of harvesting idle cycles u...
The Web Services world consists of loosely-coupled distributed systems which adapt to ad-hoc changes by the use of service descriptions that enable opportunistic service discovery...
Abstract— Following Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing and calm technology, computer systems should run in the background, preferably without the user noticing it at ...