Application servers provide many functionalities commonly needed in the development of a complex distributed application. So far, the functionalities have mostly been developed an...
Daniel Oberle, Andreas Eberhart, Steffen Staab, Ra...
Abstract Key issues of wireless ad hoc networks are auto-configuration and flexibility. Due to mobility, wireless networks are subject to frequent splits and merges. In many situ...
Franck Legendre, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Serge Fdi...
A proxy object is a surrogate or placeholder that controls access to another target object. Proxies can be used to support distributed programming, lazy or parallel evaluation, ac...
Polyvios Pratikakis, Jaime Spacco, Michael W. Hick...
Middleware provides simplicity and uniformity for the development of distributed applications. However, the modularity of the architecture of middleware is starting to disintegrat...
This paper provides an overview of our framework, called physicomimetics, for the distributed control of swarms of robots. We focus on robotic behaviors that are similar to those s...
William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Rodney Heil, W...