—The ubiquity of mobile devices has brought forth the concept of participatory sensing, whereby ordinary citizens can now contribute and share information from the urban environm...
Ensuring the consistency and the availability of replicated data in highly mobile ad hoc networks is a challenging task because of the lack of a backbone infrastructure. Previous ...
Multiview video coding (MVC) is getting more and more attention in recent years because of the realistic perception it can bring. However, the current H.264-based coding scheme ca...
1 This paper presents a new approach to trusted Grid computing in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) setting. Trust and security are essential to establish lasting working relationships among th...
Grids functionally combine globally distributed computers and information systems for creating a universal source of computing power and information. A key characteristic of grids ...