When computation moves off the desktop, how will it transform the new spaces that it comes to occupy? How will people encounter and understand these spaces, and how will they inter...
Recent advances in wireless technology and availability of portable devices with networking capabilities made the increasing hot topic, ubiquitous computing become reality. Also, ...
A ubiquitous computing system derives its operations from the collective interactions of its constituent components. Consequently, a robust ubiquitous system entails that the discr...
Parallel processing networks, even full crossbars, that only implement point-to-point and multicast message passing are inefficient for collective communications because multiple ...
Most applications share the resources of networked workstations with other applications. Since system load can vary dramatically, allocation strategies that assume that resources ...