: Ambient Intelligent (AmI) vision is a new concept materialized by the Six Framework Program of the European Community. It involves three key technologies: Ubiquitous Computing, U...
In this paper, we propose a peer-to-peer approach to derive and obtain additional context data from lowlevel context data that may be spread over multiple domains in pervasive com...
Algorithmic skeletons intend to simplify parallel programming by providing a higher abstraction compared to the usual message passing. Task and data parallel skeletons can be dist...
Abstract We argue that in the decision making process required for selecting assertible vague descriptions of an object, it is practical that communicating agents adopt an epistemi...
When employing a consensus algorithm for state machine replication, should one optimize for the case that all communication links are usually timely, or for fewer timely links? Do...