Reference Papers ( more to be added .....)

• W.J. Bolosky, R. P. Draves, R.P. Fitzgerald, C.W. Fraser, M.B. Jones, T.B. Knoblock and Rick Rashid, Operating Systems Directions for the next Millenium.
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• Satyanarayanan, M., Kistler, J.J., Kumar, P., Okasaki, M.E., Siegel, E.H., Steere, D.C., "Coda: A Highly Available File System for a Distributed Workstation Environment". Here.
• Richard Guy, Peter Reiher, David Ratner, Michial Gunter, Wilkie Ma, Gerald Popek, Rumor : Mobile Data Access through Optimistic Peer-to-Peer Replication
• Lalana Kagal, Tim Finin and Anupam Joshi DRAFT Towards a Well Behaved Web
• A. Uszok, J. Bradshaw, R. Jeffers, N. Suri, P. Hayes, M. Breedy, L. Bunch, M. Johnson, S. Kulkarni, J. Lott KAoS Policy and Domain Services: Toward a Description-Logic Approach to Policy Representation, Deconfliction, and Enforcement, IEEE 4th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, June 04 - 06, 2003 Lake Como, Italy
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• Ion Stoica, Robert Morris, David Karger, M. Frans Kaashoek, and Hari Balakrishnan, Chord: A Scalable Peer-to-peer Lookup Service for Internet Applications, ACM SIGCOMM 2001, San Deigo, CA, August 2001, pp. 149-160. Abstract, PostScript, PDF.
• JINI Architecture overview and other whitepapers at http://www.sun.com/software/jini/whitepapers/
• Filip Perich, Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin, and Yelena Yesha, On Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments - ( local copy at UMBC )
• Dipanjan Chakraborty et al., Towards Distributed Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments, Article, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, July 2004 - ( local copy at UMBC )