Distributed computation of Voronoi cells in sensor networks, i.e. computing the locus of points in a sensor field closest to a given sensor, is a key building block that supports...
Pervasive devices are becoming popular and smaller. Those mobile systems should be able to adapt to changing requirements and execution environments. But it requires the ability t...
Daniel Cheung-Foo-Wo, Jean-Yves Tigli, Stephane La...
Developing a general component system for a statically typed, object-oriented language is a challenging design problem for two reasons. First, mutually recursive references across...
Abstract. Yao’s classical millionaires’ problem is about securely determining whether x > y, given two input values x, y, which are held as private inputs by two parties, re...
Concurrency control in Smalltalk is based on locks and is therefore notoriously difficult to use. Even though some implementations provide high-level constructs, these add complexi...