In the social reality, objects communicate with each other by means of assuming roles to establish collaboration, and then can adaptively change their roles to obtain other intera...
Quorum protocols offer several benefits when used to maintain replicated data but techniques for reducing overheads associated with them have not been explored in detail. It is d...
Lei Kong, Deepak J. Manohar, Mustaque Ahamad, Arun...
Ambient Intelligence scenarios can be deployed even when the environment lacks of a underlying network infrastructure. This can be done using distributed ad-hoc networks. Ambient ...
This paper presents three contributions to research on middleware load balancing. First, it describes the design of Cygnus, which is an extensible open-source middleware framework...
Jaiganesh Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, Law...
Data quality is critical for many information-intensive applications. One of the best opportunities to improve data quality is during entry. USHER provides a theoretical, data-dri...
Kuang Chen, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Tapan S. Parikh