Apple's release of the Xgrid framework for distributed computing introduces a new technology solution for loosely coupled distributed computation. In this paper systematicall...
Contextual information such as spatial location can significantly enhance the utility of mobile applications. We introduce the concept of active preferences that represent a comb...
In self-adaptive systems, metadata about resources in the system (e.g., services, nodes) must be dynamically published, updated, and removed. Current middleware approaches use sta...