One vision of an opportunistic sensor network (OSN) uses sensor access points (SAPs) to assign mobile sensors with sensing tasks submitted by applications that could be running any...
The Network Weather Service NWS is a distributed resource monitoring and utilization prediction system, employed as an aid to scheduling jobs in a metacomputing environment 9, 1...
Robert E. Busby Jr., Mitchell L. Neilsen, Daniel A...
The need for descriptive information, i.e., metadata, about Web resources has been recognized in several application contexts (e.g., digital libraries, portals). The Resource Descr...
Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides, Gregory Kar...
This paper presents a multiprocessor system on FPGA that adopts Direct Memory Access (DMA) mechanisms to move data between the external memory and the local memory of each process...
Ubiquitous computing and communication environments connect systems and people in unprecedented ways, but also fundamentally challenge the mindset of traditional systems engineeri...