We present a specification for a new, localized group membership service that maintains the membership status of adjacent nodes – called neighbors – in a mobile distributed s...
Service resilience, defined as the continued availability of a service despite failures and other negative changes in its environment, is vital in many systems. It is typically ac...
This paper investigates emergent practices around `microblogging', changing and sharing status within a social group. We present results from a trial of `Connecto', a ph...
Louise Barkhuus, Barry Brown, Marek Bell, Scott Sh...
This paper reports on the architecture and design of Starfish, an environment for executing dynamic (and static) MPI-2 programs on a cluster of workstations. Starfish is unique in ...
Although information technology is advancing, computer-based systems do not yet ideally support collaborative activities of mobile users in nomadic workspaces. Mobile information ...