... The paper develops a model‐based approach, appropriate for distributed, heterogeneous environments. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Programming Distributed databases Sensors Our research focuses on Sentient Computing[1] (Hopper, 1999) which is a computing paradigm for context...

.../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...