Mobile systems have limited resources, such as battery life, network bandwidth, storage
capacity, and processor performance. These restrictions may be alleviated by computation …

Process migration is the act of transferring a process between two machines. It enables
dynamic load distribution, fault resilience, eased system administration, and data access …

The study of multi-agent systems (MAS) focuses on systems in which many intelligent agents
interact with each other. These agents are considered to be autonomous entities such as …

This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of Cricket, a location-
support system for in-building, mobile, location-dependent applications. It allows …

In the task of visual object categorization, semantic context can play the very important role
of reducing ambiguity in objects' visual appearance. In this work we propose to incorporate …

Most applications in distributed computing center around a set of common subproblems.
Distributed Systems: An Algorithmic Approach presents the algorithmic issues and …

The anticipated increase in popular use of the Internet will create more opportunities in
distance learning, electronic commerce, and multimedia communication, but it will also …

An ad-hoc network is formed by a group of mobile hosts upon a wireless network interface.
Previous research in this area has concentrated on routing algorithms which are designed …

Numerical and analytic results for the exponent θ describing the decay of the first return
probability of an interface to its initial height are obtained for a large class of linear Langevin …

Mobile agents offer much promise, but agent mobility and Internet openness make
coordination more difficult. Mobile Agent Reactive Spaces (MARS), a Linda-like coordination …