Abstract. Continuous sensing applications (e.g., mobile social networking applications) are appearing on new sensor-enabled mobile phones such as the Apple iPhone, Nokia and Androi...
: As cloud services grow to span more and more globally distributed datacenters, there is an increasingly urgent need for automated mechanisms to place application data across thes...
Sharad Agarwal, John Dunagan, Navendu Jain, Stefan...
ion and abstraction. By the end of the 20th century, technology had advanced to the point where computerized methods had revolutionized surveying and mapmaking practices. Now, the ...
—There are many APIs for connecting and exchanging data between network peers. Each interface varies wildly based on metrics including performance, portability, and complexity. S...
Scott Atchley, David Dillow, Galen M. Shipman, Pat...
—Interoperability remains a challenging and growing problem within distributed systems. A range of heterogeneous network and middleware protocols which cannot interact with one a...