—Researchers choosing to share wireless-network traces with colleagues must first anonymize sensitive information, trading off the removal of information in the interest of iden...
People spend most of their time at a few key locations, such as home and work. Being able to identify how the movements of people cluster around these “important places” is cru...
Constructing scalable high-performance applications on commodity hardware running the Unix operating system is a problem that must be addressed in several application domains. We ...
Customers are usually passive in an electronic commerce transaction. Based on a new two times concurrent signature, this article presents a fair electronic payment (E-payment) pro...
In this paper, we propose a novel deadlock resolution algorithm. In the presence of global deadlocks in a multidatabase system, this algorithm always selects an optimal set of vic...