Distributed Systems Page 1 DS 2006; Ch1 16-Jan-06 Timo Alanko, 2006 1 Distributed
Systems Spring 2006 Timo Alanko 16-Jan-06 2 Sources of material • Tanenbaum, van …

Development of context-aware applications is inherently complex. These applications adapt
to changing context information: physical context, computational context, and user …

Autonomic communications seek to improve the ability of network and services to cope with
unpredicted change, including changes in topology, load, task, the physical and logical …

Context: Software engineering for ubiquitous systems has experienced an important and
rapid growth, however the vast research corpus makes it difficult to obtain valuable …

Self-organization is bound to greatly affect computer science. The simplicity and yet power of
self-organized models will allow researchers to propose efficient solutions to problems …

Stigmergy (the coordination of agents through signs they make and sense in a shared
environment) was originally articulated in the study of social insects. Its basic processes are …

A new field in distributed computing, called Ambient Intelligence, has emerged as a
consequence of the increasing availability of wireless devices and the mobile networks they …

In this paper, we describe AmbientTalk: a domain-specific language for orchestrating service
discovery and composition in mobile ad hoc networks. AmbientTalk is a distributed object …

Abstract The Abstract Task Graph (ATaG) is a data driven programming model for end-to-
end application development on networked sensor systems. An ATaG program is a system …

Programming distributed systems is notoriously hard due to–among the others–concurrency,
asynchronous execution, message loss, and device failures. Homogeneous distributed …