Agent-oriented software is promising improvements especially for the design of distributed systems. But currently, there is a substantial gap between the massive number of publica...
—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
The development of network-attached devices has ushered in an era of autonomous, multi-function equipment demanding minimal human interaction: the only requirements are data and e...
Michael J. McMahon Jr., Sergiu M. Dascalu, Frederi...
Recent advances in realtime image compression and decompression hardware make it possible for a high-performance graphics engine to operate as a rendering server in a networked en...
Parallel NFS (pNFS) is touted as an emergent standard protocol for parallel I/O access in various storage environments. Several pNFS prototypes have been implemented for initial v...