: We describe QoSDREAM, a middleware framework for the construction and management of context-aware multimedia applications. The contributions of QoSDREAM include (1) a novel appro...
Pervasive devices are becoming popular and smaller. Those mobile systems should be able to adapt to changing requirements and execution environments. But it requires the ability t...
Daniel Cheung-Foo-Wo, Jean-Yves Tigli, Stephane La...
In large-scale, distributed software systems, an important management undertaking concerns the creation and runtime modification of application instances. This short paper propose...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology provides the means to track any object, any time, anywhere with Electronic Product Codes (EPC). A major consequence of this techno...
Failure detectors (or, more accurately Failure Suspectors { FS) appear to be a fundamental service upon which to build fault-tolerant, distributed applications. This paper shows t...