—An increasing number of mobile devices, including smartphones, use WLAN for accessing the Internet. Existing WLAN authentication mechanisms are either disruptive, such as presen...
There is a growing trend to deploy web services in pervasive computing environments. Implementing web services on networked, embedded devices leads to a set of challenges, includi...
— Increasing number of communication softwares are built on distributed architectures based on the Peer-toPeer (P2P) model, such as Skype [1], and PeerCast [2]. This model provid...
We introduce TIRA1 , a software architecture for the rapid prototyping of tailored information retrieval (IR) tools. TIRA allows to compose personal IR tools from atomic IR servic...
— The current standard for Fault-Tolerance in the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) does not support network partitioning. However, distributed systems, and those...