Programming Pervasive and Mobile Computing Applications: The TOTA Approach

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1-56

  Mamei, Marco ^a   Zambonelli, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

coordination; Design; middleware; mobile computing; Performance; Pervasive computing; self adaptation; self organization; tuple spaces

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; COORDINATION REACTIONS; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

COMPLEX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; COORDINATION; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION; DYNAMIC NETWORK ENVIRONMENT; SELF ADAPTATION; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; TUPLE SPACE;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84996602295     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: 15577392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1538942.1538945     Document Type: Article

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