PUMAS is a framework based on agents and an approach Peer to Peer (P2P), which allows to nomadic user to access several sources of information through different types of devices, eventually mobile. PUMAS provides to nomadic user information adapted to her /his preferences and to the character istics of the context of use (composed of character istics such as l...

Anomadic information environment is a heterogeneous assemblage of interconnected technological, and social, and organizational elements that enable the physical and social mobility of computing and communication services between organizational actors bothwithin and across organizational borders. We analyze such environments based on their prevalent features of mobility, digital convergence, and...

I shall begin by clarifying the concept of post-nomadism, used here with reference to the subject and to architecture. Rather than supposing a transition between forms of life conceived as distinct and whole, one nomadic and the other sedentary, post-nomadism suggests transformations of a nomadic way of life without assuming that they constitute a trajectory toward a sedentist notion of becomin...

Bedouin Arabs in Israel are a Muslim society undergoing dramatic social change. The Bedouin have lived in the Negev desert since the sixth century, having migrated there from the Arabian Peninsula. In the course of the last five decades this traditionally nomadic/semi-nomadic population has undergone rapid modernization and urbanization, and today approximately 120,000 Bedouin Arabs live in the...

Preface This work is a continuation of the NomadBIOS project, where Asger Jensen and I designed and built what would now be termed a para-virtualized hypervisor for hosting multiple virtual machines on top of the L4 microkernel, and—to our knowledge—were the first to show the feasibility of live migration of virtual machines across a local network. Focusing on grid computing, our idea was to pa...

In the last decade, ubiquitous computing (UC) has become an aspiration of the computing community. Nowadays, it is so profound that it is increasingly indistinguishable from the overall agenda of computing research. In UC, the main objective is to provide users the ability to access services and resources anytime, anywhere, in particular using Mobile Devices (MD). Applications in this domain ar...

Anomadic information environment is a heterogeneous assemblage of interconnected technological, and social, and organizational elements that enable the physical and social mobility of computing and communication services between organizational actors bothwithin and across organizational borders. We analyze such environments based on their prevalent features of mobility, digital convergence, and...