To support rapid software evolution, it is desirable to construct software systems from reusable components. In this approach, the architecture of a system is described as a collec...
Gesture recognition is a common method of text input on handheld and other pen-based computing devices. Xstroke is a full-screen gesture recognition program for the X Window Syste...
Pocket computers are beginning to emerge that provide sufficient processing capability and memory capacity to run traditional desktop applications and operating systems on them. T...
Dirk Grunwald, Philip Levis, Keith I. Farkas, Char...
Service discovery and its automation are some of the key features that a large scale, open distributed system must provide so that clients and users may take advantage of shared re...
The characteristics of ad hoc networks naturally encourage the deployment of distributed services. Although current networks implement group communication methods, they do not sup...