Pervasive services may be defined as services that are available to any client (anytime, anywhere). Here we focus on the software and network infrastructure required to support pe...
Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Ronald Morrison, ...
Abstract—A simple and effective composition of software services into higher-level composite services is still a very challenging task. Especially in enterprise environments, Qua...
Florian Rosenberg, Predrag Celikovic, Anton Michlm...
: Even if Multiagent Systems (MASs) are recognised as an appealing paradigm for designing many computer systems ranging from complex distributed systems to intelligent software app...
Vincent Hilaire, Pablo Gruer, Abderrafiaa Koukam, ...
Emerging fast, non-volatile memories (e.g., phase change memories, spin-torque MRAMs, and the memristor) reduce storage access latencies by an order of magnitude compared to state...
Adrian M. Caulfield, Todor I. Mollov, Louis Alex E...
State-of-the-art run-time systems are a poor match to diverse, dynamic distributed applications because they are designed to provide support to a wide variety of applications, with...
Lawrence Rauchwerger, Nancy M. Amato, Josep Torrel...