Multi-agent systems where the members are developed by parties with competing interests, and where there is no access to a member’s internal state, are often classified as ‘o...
New challenging deployment scenarios are accommodating portable devices with limited and heterogeneous capabilities that roam among wireless access localities during service provis...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Carlo Giannelli
The recent trend towards dynamically extensible systems, such as Java, SPIN or VINO, promises more powerful and flexible systems. At the same time, the impact of extensibility on...
Data consistency protocols are vital ingredients of mobile data management systems. Notable research efforts have been spent to find adequate consistency models for allowing mobi...
Abstract. Distributedobject middleware, suchas CORBA, hides systemand network-speci c characteristics of objects behind functional interface speci cations. This simpli es developme...
Joseph P. Loyall, David E. Bakken, Richard E. Scha...