The publish/subscribe communication paradigm is an appealing mechanism for efficient content retrieval due to the decoupling of data sources and consumers. However, the location d...
The Mobile Agent (MA) paradigm seems able to support effectively distributed applications in open and heterogeneous environments, and application areas such as ecommerce appear to...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montana...
We describe a resource discovery and communication system designed for security and privacy. All objects in the system, e.g., appliances, wearable gadgets, software agents, and us...
Matt Burnside, Dwaine E. Clarke, Todd Mills, Andre...
We propose a protocol for a local search and a genetic algorithm for the distributed traveling salesman problem (TSP). In the distributed TSP, information regarding the cost funct...
A computational grid is a large-scale distributed computing environment capable of providing dependable, consistent, pervasive, and inexpensive access to high-end computational re...