— In location-based services, users with location-aware mobile devices are able to make queries about their surroundings anywhere and at any time. While this ubiquitous computing...
New challenges to the database field brought about by the rapidly growing area of wireless personal communication are presented. Preliminary solutions to two of the major problems...
We are witnessing in recent years growing interest for location-dependent information services among mobile users. This paper examines the issue of processing locationdependent qu...
Jianliang Xu, Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
Adaptive query processing in large distributed systems has seen increasing importance due to the rising environmental fluctuations in a growing Internet. We describe Ginga, an ad...
This paper discusses the problem of content adaptation for mobile devices. The adaptation considers the context of the client and also the environment where the client request is ...