Grid and distributed public computing schemes has become an essential tool for many scientific fields including bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology. The adopt...
—Software license management allows independent software vendors (ISVs) to control the access of their products. It is a fundamental part of the ISVs’ business strategy. A wide...
: Wide area network (WAN) -based distributed computing (DC) has become an active field of research, especially under the label of grid computing. On the other hand, research on WAN...
In this paper, we propose a peer-to-peer approach to derive and obtain additional context data from lowlevel context data that may be spread over multiple domains in pervasive com...
—Mobile devices with two network interfaces (WiFi and 3G) are already commercially available. Pointto-point communications such as Infrared and Bluetooth are also readily used. I...