Abstract. Location-based Services are emerging as popular applications in pervasive computing. Spatial k-anonymity is used in Locationbased Services to protect privacy, by hiding t...
When implementing an application system in a distributed computing environment, several architectural questions arise such as, how and where computing resources are distributed, a...
Debugging distributed applications is a wellknown challenge within the realm of Computer Science. Common problems faced by developers include: lack of an observable global state, ...
The development of libre (free/open source) software is usually performed by geographically distributed teams. Participation in most cases is voluntary, sometimes sporadic, and of...
A Replica Location Service (RLS) allows registration and discovery of data replicas. In earlier work, we proposed an RLS framework and described the performance and scalability of...