The RAIN (Reliable Array of Independent Nodes) project at Caltech is focusing on creating highly reliable distributed systems by leveraging commercially available personal compute...
We describe the Tycoon approach to scale the successful notion of a uniform, type-safe persistent object store to communication-intensive applications and applications where lo...
Bernd Mathiske, Florian Matthes, Joachim W. Schmid...
A key challenge for the successful deployment of systems consisting of multiple autonomous networked sensors is the development of decentralised mechanisms to coordinate the activ...
W. T. Luke Teacy, Alessandro Farinelli, N. J. Grab...
Abstract. Although mobile hand-held devices (MHDs) are ubiquitous today, little is know about how they are used--especially at home. In this paper, we cast a first look on mobile h...
Tightly-coupled interaction is shared work in which each person's actions immediately and continuously influence the actions of others. Tightly-coupled collaboration is a hal...