— This paper aims to present ideas to bridge the gap between two conflicting views of information: Shannon information, which is used to model physical layer information, and se...
—The advent of distributed and ad-hoc-connected systems such as in Ambient Intelligence applications confronts developers with the question on how to specify QoS- and security po...
In this paper, we introduce the concept of dynamically changing between centralized, replicated, and hybrid collaboration architectures. It is implemented by providing users a fun...
We describe Spectra, a remote execution system for batterypowered clients used in pervasive computing. Spectra enables applications to combine the mobility of small devices with t...
Process migration has been used to perform specialized tasks, such as load sharing and checkpoint/restarting long running applications. Implementation typically consists of modifi...