Service discovery at home

Service discovery is a fairly new field that kicked off since the advent of ubiquitous computing and has been found essential in the making of intelligent networks by implementing automated discovery and remote control between devices. This paper provides an overview and comparison of several prominent service discovery mechanisms currently available. It also introduces the at home anywhere service discovery protocol (SDP@HA) design which improves on the current state of the art by accommodating resource lean devices, implementing a dynamic leader election for a central cataloguing device and embedding robustness to the service discovery architecture as an important criterion

JAVA - It\u27s More Than Coffee!; Technology Alert, Vol. 95, No. 9, December 1995

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JiniOS : the network is the computer

While computers have grown more powerful and the operating systems that drive them have become easier to use, the process for installing new hardware has changed very little from the techniques used with the earliest computers The current method for installing new devices into a computer is much too complicated even for an experienced user and often results in hours of frustration. In spite of the fact that there has been phenomenal growth both in the speed and complexity of computers and the peripherals attached to them, the process for installing these devices remains user intensive This research addresses some of the shortcomings of the current process and defines an operating system called JmiOS,which implements the solutions proposed herein JmiOS allows devices to install themselves into any computer only when they are needed, without any setup and very little user interventio

Virtualization for computational scientists

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Graphic design & ubiquitous graphic user interfaces; The Third Wave of Computing

Graphic design is an integral component of user interface design. Ubiquitous computing is the a form of computing that is everywhere all the time through technology advances in hardware, software, and communication networks. Consumers are able to retrieve and send information whenever a task needs to be completed. Graphic design is part of the visual mechanism through which people interact with devices. The visual interactive components of these devices are the part of computing systems that are addressed in this project. This thesis addresses the problems that arise when people need to interact with several devices at a given time. The goal is to make the experience of an imaging appliance as enjoyable and useful as possible. Graphic design is the key component in the visual communication aspect of these devices. The ideas used in the scenarios that are described in the ideation stage assume that future technologies are mainstream and used by the mass consumer. Although these assumptions may or may not come to fruition, graphic design will still be a integral part of that user experience

Service Level Agreement Driven Adaptive Resource Management For Web Applications on Heterogeneous Compute Clouds

Cloud computing is an emerging topic in the field of parallel and distributed computing. Many IT giants such as IBM, Sun, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are promoting and offering various storage and compute clouds. Clouds provide services such as high performance computing, storage, and application hosting. Cloud providers are expected to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) through a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between the provider and the consumer. In this research, I develop a heterogeneous testbed compute cloud and investigate adaptive management of resources for Web applications to satisfy a SLA that enforces specific response time requirements. I develop a system on top of EUCALYTPUS framework that actively monitors the response time of the compute resources assign to a Web application and dynamically allocates the resources required by the application to satisfy the specific response time requirements

Self-Test Components for Highly Reconfigurable Systems

Abstract Verification of component-based systems presents new challenges not yet completely addressed by existing testing techniques. This paper proposes a new approach for automatically testing highly reconfigurable component-based systems, i.e., systems that can be obtained by changing some components. The paper presents an industrial case that motivates our research and proposes a testing infrastructure that tracks run-time information for components. The collected information is used for automatic testing new versions of existing components and new configurations of existing systems