A major problem in the development of distributed applications is that we cannot assume that the environment in which the application is to operate will remain the same. This mean...
Maarten van Steen, Stefan Van der Zijden, Henk J. ...
Effective security mechanisms are essential to the widespread deployment of pervasive systems. Much of the research focus on security in pervasive computing has revolved around dis...
The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...
Grid applications have been prone to encountering problems such as failures or malicious attacks during execution, due to their distributed and large-scale features. The applicati...
Xuanhua Shi, Jean-Louis Pazat, Eric Rodriguez, Hai...
Abstract. Coordination and Adaptation are two key issues when developing complex distributed systems. Coordination focuses on the interaction among computational entities. Adaptati...