— Mobile agents are considered a suitable technology to develop applications for wireless environments with limited communication capabilities. Thus, they offer interesting advan...
Enterprise IT environments are complex: business applications rely on distributed middleware running on diverse hardware with components depending on each other in many unexpected...
Nikolai Joukov, Murthy V. Devarakonda, Kostas Mago...
Distributed applications that adapt as their environment changes are developed from selfmanaging, self-configuring and self-optimising behaviours. This requires constant monitorin...
Data replication is an excellent technique to move and cache data close to users. By replication, data access performance can be improved dramatically. One of the challenges in da...
—In disaster areas, office buildings, or at home, multiple autonomous networked mobile robots may act instead of human beings. These robots have to move to their destination so ...