The common vision of pervasive computing environments requires a very large range of devices and software components to interoperate seamlessly. From the assumption that these dev...
This paper develops a high-performance, Internet-wide service discovery tool, which we call IRLscanner, whose main design objectives have been to maximize politeness at remote net...
For the past few years, our research groups have independently been developing systems in which a multi-agent system (typically of lightweight agents) provides some functionality i...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Danny Weyns, ...
Problem localization is a critical part of providing crucial system management capabilities to modern distributed environments. One key open challenge is for problem localization ...
Rui Zhang, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Alan Bivens, S...
— Mobile handheld devices such as PDAs and smartphones are increasingly being used by service providers to deliver application functionality similar to that found in traditional ...