Generative communication in Linda
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Stepwise refinement of parallel algorithms
Science of Computer Programming
Concurrent programming: principles and practice
Concurrent programming: principles and practice
Cyberguide: a mobile context-aware tour guide
Wireless Networks - Special issue: mobile computing and networking: selected papers from MobiCom '96
L2imbo: a distributed systems platform for mobile computing
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue on protocols and software paradigms of mobile networks
The context toolkit: aiding the development of context-enabled applications
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Experiences of developing and deploying a context-aware tourist guide: the GUIDE project
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Design and evaluation of a wide-area event notification service
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The JEDI Event-Based Infrastructure and Its Application to the Development of the OPSS WFMS
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Network abstractions for context-aware mobile computing
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
MARS: A Programmable Coordination Architecture for Mobile Agents
IEEE Internet Computing
LIME: A Middleware for Physical and Logical Mobility
ICDCS '01 Proceedings of the The 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
An infrastructure approach to context-aware computing
Human-Computer Interaction
Inconsistency detection and resolution for context-aware middleware support
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Uncertain event-based model for egocentric context sensing
SEM '05 Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Software engineering and middleware
Incremental consistency checking for pervasive context
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Mobile agent middleware for sensor networks: an application case study
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Modeling adaptive behaviors in Context UNITY
Theoretical Computer Science
EgoSpaces: Facilitating Rapid Development of Context-Aware Mobile Applications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
MESHMdl event spaces - A coordination middleware for self-organizing applications in ad hoc networks
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Automatic consistency assessment for query results in dynamic environments
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
Designing ubiquitous applications: proposal of a specification environment
MUCS '09 Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Managing ubiquitous communications and services
Partial constraint checking for context consistency in pervasive computing
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Semantic self-assessment of query results in dynamic environments
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
A declarative approach to agent-centered context-aware computing in ad hoc wireless environments
Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems
In-motes: an intelligent agent based middleware for wireless sensor networks
AEE'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on Applications of electrical engineering
Adaptive preference specifications for application sessions
ICSOC'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Environments for multiagent systems state-of-the-art and research challenges
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
Supporting context-aware interaction in dynamic multi-agent systems
E4MAS'04 Proceedings of the First international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
A framework for self-organized network composition
WAC'04 Proceedings of the First international IFIP conference on Autonomic Communication
Adaptive access control in coordination-based mobile agent systems
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III
ESAW'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
Enabling ubiquitous coordination using application sessions
COORDINATION'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Coordination Models and Languages
An architecture for MAS simulation environments
E4MAS'05 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
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Some of the most dynamic systems being built today consist of physically mobile hosts and logically mobile agents. Such systems exhibit frequent configuration changes and a great deal of resource variability. Applications executing under these circumstances need to react continuously and rapidly to changes in operating conditions and must adapt their behavior accordingly. The development of such applications demands a reexamination of the notion of context and the mechanisms used to manage the application's response to contextual changes. This paper introduces EgoSpaces, a coordination model and middleware for ad hoc mobile environments. EgoSpaces focuses on the needs of application development in ad hoc environments by proposing an agent-centered notion of context, called a view, whose scope extends beyond the local host to data and resources associated with hosts and agents within a subnet surrounding the agent of interest. An agent may operate over multiple views whose definitions may change over time. An agent uses declarative specifications to constrain the contents of each view by employing a rich set of constraints that take into consideration properties of the individual data items, the agents that own them, the hosts on which the agents reside, and the physical and logical topology of the ad hoc network. This paper formalizes the concept of view, explores the notion of programming against views, discusses possible implementation strategies for transparent context maintenance, and describes our current prototype of the system. We include examples to illustrate the expressive power of the view abstraction and to relate it to other research on coordination models and middleware.