— Applications are faced with several network-related problems on current grids: heterogeneous networks, firewalls, NAT, private IP addresses, non-routed networks, performance p...
Component failures and planned component replacements cause changes in the topology and routing paths supplied by the interconnection network of a parallel processor system over ti...
Secure distributed applications often include code to authenticate users, verify access rights, and establish secure communication channels between software components (e.g., clie...
Controlling the quality of collaborative multimedia sessions, that deploy multiple media streams, is a challenging problem. In this paper, we present a framework for achieving qua...
Current software suites suffer from problems due to poor integration of their individual tools. They require the designer to think of all possible integrating behaviours and leave...
Anind K. Dey, Gregory D. Abowd, Mike Pinkerton, An...