Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
The Home Network is a pervasive environment by nature. Its openness to dynamic distributed and heterogeneous devices brings great challenges in home application design. We present...
—The FRIENDS system developed at LAAS-CNRS is a metalevel architecture providing libraries of metaobjects for fault tolerance, secure communication, and group-based distributed a...
The entities participating in a context-aware service platform need to establish and manage trust relationships in order to assert different trust aspects including identity provis...
Ricardo Neisse, Maarten Wegdam, Marten van Sindere...
Current trends in collaborative business emphasize the importance of business process support within and between organizations. These process participants are increasingly distrib...