... concludes. Current trends in programming paradigms in the area of context‐awareness, such as ubiquitous and pervasive computing, advocate a separation of concerns between the way the user perceives knowledge about the physical world and the way knowledge is produced and maintained within Sentient...

.../methodology/approach The proposed JDGC is fully decentralized in that every participating host is identical in function. It allows standard, single machine‐oriented Java programs to be transparently executed in a distributed system. The code generator reduces the communication overhead between runtime...