UBIQUEST, for rapid prototyping of networking applications.

ABSTRACTAn UBIQUEST system provides a high level programming abstraction for rapid prototyping of heterogeneous and distributed applications in a dynamic environment. Such a system is perceived as a distributed database and the applications interact through declarative queries including declarative networking programs (e.g. routing) and/or specific data-oriented distributed algorithms (e.g. distributed join). Case-Based Reasoning is used for optimization of distributed queries when as there is no prior knowledge on data (sources) in networking applications, and certainly no related metadata such as data statistics.