Our work presents a mechanism designed for the selection of the optimal information provider in a multi-agent, heterogeneous and unsupervised monitoring system. The selfadaptation...
The design of distributed applications in a CORBA based environment can be carried out by means of an incremental approach, which starts from the specification and leads to the hi...
In this Special Interest Group (SIG) we plan to focus on discussions and activities surrounding the design of technologies to support families. Many researchers and designers stud...
Carman Neustaedter, Svetlana Yarosh, A. J. Bernhei...
We show how the database community’s notion of a generic query interface for data aggregation can be applied to ad-hoc networks of sensor devices. As has been noted in the senso...
Samuel Madden, Robert Szewczyk, Michael J. Frankli...
Open-source software development projects are almost always collaborative and distributed. Despite the difficulties imposed by distance, these projects have managed to produce lar...