The increasing popularity of information services that rely on content delivery in mobile environments motivates the need for a mobile push service—an efficient and flexible c...
Agents or agent teams deployed to assist humans often face the challenges of monitoring the state of key processes in their environment (including the state of their human users t...
Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind T...
Mobility is redefining the hardware and software fabric of distributed systems. Wireless communication allows network hosts to participate in a distributed computation while on t...
Current technology trends make it possible to build communication networks that can support high performance distributed computing. This paper describes issues in the design of a ...
Thomas E. Anderson, Susan S. Owicki, James B. Saxe...
Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although cl...