Developing countries face significant challenges in network access, making even simple network tasks unpleasant. Many standard techniques—caching and predictive prefetching— ...
GridXSLT is an implementation of the XSLT programming language designed for distributed web service orchestration. Based on the functional semantics of the language, it compiles p...
Peter M. Kelly, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew L. Wend...
Ad-hoc networks of mobile devices such as smart phones and PDAs represent a new and exciting distributed system architecture. Building distributed applications on such an architec...
Yang Ni, Ulrich Kremer, Adrian Stere, Liviu Iftode
We study the problem of distributed control of a large network of double-integrator agents to maintain a rigid formation. A few lead vehicles are given information on the desired t...
This article explains challenges that arise when humanitarian organizations want to coordinate their development activities by means of distributed information systems. It focuses...