The need to continue to work in a mobile environment raises the problem of data availability in the presence of disconnections. Our approach aiming at solving this problem is to m...
We present the application of the Planning by Rewriting PbR framework to query planning in distributed and heterogeneous environments. PbR is a new paradigm for e cient high-quali...
The major contribution of this paper is the presentation of a general unifying description of distributed algorithms allowing to map local, node-based, algorithms onto a single gl...
Cognitive radios (CR) have the ability to dynamically adapt to local spectrum availability. In a network comprised of CR-enabled devices, layer-2 auto-configuration involves deter...
Futures are special kind of values that allow the synchronisation of different processes. Futures are in fact identifiers for promised results of function calls that are still awa...