Policies form an important part of management and can be an effective means of implementing self-adaptation in pervasive systems. Most policy-based systems focus on large-scale ne...
Kevin P. Twidle, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Morris...
We present the architecture of nreduce, a distributed virtual machine which uses parallel graph reduction to run programs across a set of computers. It executes code written in a ...
Peter M. Kelly, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew L. Wend...
Accurate and synchronized time is crucial in many sensor network applications due to the need for consistent distributed sensing and coordination. In hostile environments where an...
In this paper we propose a framework dedicated to the development and the execution of parallel applications over large scale global computing platforms. A workflow programming env...
Application designers of collaborative distributed Virtual Environments must account for the influence of the network connection and its detrimental effects on user performance. ...
Alexey Tumanov, Robert S. Allison, Wolfgang St&uum...