Abstract-Maintaining optimal consistency in a distributed system requires that nodes be always-on to synchronize information. Unfortunately, mobile devices such as laptops do not h...
Jacob Sorber, Nilanjan Banerjee, Mark D. Corner, S...
Dynamic resource provisioning aims at maintaining the endto-end response time of a web application within a predefined SLA. Although the topic has been well studied for monolithi...
Applications and services in ubiquitous computing systems often interact in a context-dependent, reactive manner. How information flows, and what services communicate when, is det...
Jong Hee Kang, Matthai Philipose, Gaetano Borriell...
: A fully operational large scale digital library is likely to be based on a distributed architecture and because of this it is likely that a number of independent search engines m...
Life-like agents have the potential to make e-shopping sites on the Web more attractive and persuasive; our interest is to determine how multiple life-like agents should behave as...