Abstract. Knowing the performance of an application in a Grid environment is an important issue in application development and for scheduling decisions. In this paper we describe t...
This paper presents a middleware infrastructure for integration of heterogeneous embedded devices in ubiquitous computing environments. The proposed infrastructure employs the Dev...
This paper reports on a practical implementation of a context mediator for the fixed income securities industry. We describe industry circumstances and the data and calculation se...
Transportable agents are autonomous programs. They can move through a heterogeneous network of computers under their own control, migrating from host to host. They can sense the s...
For object-oriented databases we propose a new technique for optimizing queries containing method invocations. This technique is based on the definition of inverse methods and que...