Mobile agents, programs that move within a system performing a set of tasks, are an active field of research. The focus of current research, however, is on the development of exe...
Power consumption is an important design parameter for embedded and portable systems. Software-controlled (or dynamic) power management (DPM) has recently emerged as an attractive...
Vishnu Swaminathan, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, S. Sit...
Workflow management systems (WFMSs) that are geared for the orchestration of enterprise-wide or even "virtual-enterprise"-style business processes across multiple organi...
Due to the requirements of open service markets, the structure of networks and application systems is changing. To handle the evolving complex distributed systems, new concepts for...
Because of its small form factor, high capacity, and expected low cost, MEMS-based storage is a suitable storage technology for mobile systems. MEMS-based storage devices should a...