One of the main objectives of developing component-based software systems is to enable efficient building of systems through the integration of components. All component models def...
We describe extensions to the Excel spreadsheet that integrate userdefined functions into the spreadsheet grid, rather than treating them as a "bolt-on". Our first objec...
Simon L. Peyton Jones, Alan F. Blackwell, Margaret...
Due to the inherent nature of their heterogeneity, resource scarcity and dynamism, the provision of middleware for future networked embedded environments is a challenging task. In...
Paolo Costa, Geoff Coulson, Richard Gold, Manish L...
Computation off-loading, i.e., remote execution, has been shown to be effective for extending the computational power and battery life of resource-restricted devices, e.g., hand-h...
Sensor networks are expected to evolve into long-lived, autonomous networked systems whose main mission is to provide in-situ users ? called actors ? with real-time information in...
Ferruccio Barsi, Alfredo Navarra, Maria Cristina P...