Context-aware applications rely on the ability to perceive the state of the surrounding environment. In this paper, we address a class of such applications where real-time guarant...
Service-Oriented architectures and Service-Oriented Computing are the most recent approaches aiming at facilitating the design and development of applications on distributed system...
With the increasing prevalence of mobile devices, computing is being carried out on devices with varied resource constraints and is afflicted by constant changes in run-time conte...
Nalini Moti Belaramani, Cho-Li Wang, Francis C. M....
There is considerable interest in developing runtime infrastructures for programs that can migrate from one host to another. Mobile programs are appealing because they support efï...
We believe that to fully support adaptive distributed applications, middleware must itself be adaptable, adaptive and policy-free. In this paper we present a new language-independ...
Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, Stuart J. Norcros...