Novel ubiquitous computing applications such as intelligent vehicles, smart buildings, and traffic management require special properties that traditional computing applications d...
— The efforts to construct a national scale Grid computing environment have brought unprecedented computing capacity and complicacy. Exploiting this complex infrastructure requir...
Consumer devices have domain specific constraints imposed by end-users, device manufacturers and service providers. These constraints focus on the need for security and reliabilit...
A suitable software architecture –for example in the area of distributed application– can be composed of known-to-work solutions. These are also known as design patterns. Howev...
In recent years, we have seen a dramatic increase in the use of data-centric distributed systems such as global grid infrastructures, sensor networks, network monitoring, and vari...