Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based item-level tracking holds the promise of revolutionizing supply-chain, retail store, and asset management applications. However, the hi...
The memory consistency model in parallel programming controls the order in which operations performed by one thread may be observed by another. Language designers have been reluct...
Grid computing and cluster computing platforms are becoming the primary development platforms for pervasive computing. The primary problem associated with both computational grids...
Avinash Shankar, Daniel Saffioti, Ian Piper, Ashwi...
Existing e-commerce applications on the web provide the users a relatively simple, browser-based interface to access available products. Customers are not provided with the same s...
Xiaojun Shen, T. Radakrishnan, Nicolas D. Georgana...
We consider systems for data sharing among heterogeneous peers related by a network of schema mappings. Each peer has a locally controlled and edited database instance, but wants ...
Todd J. Green, Grigoris Karvounarakis, Zachary G. ...