This paper presents HomeViews, a peer-to-peer middleware system for building personal data management applications. HomeViews provides abstractions and services for data organizat...
Roxana Geambasu, Magdalena Balazinska, Steven D. G...
—There are increasing capabilities and demands for the remote monitoring of homes and their occupants. There are a variety of options for the architecture of such monitoring syst...
Large classes of autonomic (self-managing, selfhealing) systems can be created by logically integrating simpler autonomic systems. The configuration method is widely used for such...
Sanjai Narain, Thanh Cheng, Brian A. Coan, Vikram ...
Information systems now form the backbone of nearly every government and private system. Increasingly these systems are networked together allowing for distributed operations, sha...
Frederick T. Sheldon, Stephen Gordon Batsell, Stac...
Transportable agents are autonomous programs. They can move through a heterogeneous network of computers under their own control, migrating from host to host. They can sense the s...