Abstract. A significant increase in real world event monitoring capability with wireless sensor networks brought a new challenge to ubiquitous computing. To manage high volume and...
Distributed applications execute in environments that can include different network architectures as well as a range of compute platforms. Furthermore, these resources are shared ...
In a mobile computing system, caching data items at the mobile clients is important to reduce the data access delay in a unreliable and low bandwidth mobile network. However, effi...
Joe Chun-Hung Yuen, Edward Chan, Kam-yiu Lam, Hei-...
—A challenge in providing scientific data services to a broad user base is to also provide the metadata services and tools the user base needs to correctly interpret and trust t...
Stephan Zednik, Peter Fox, Deborah L. McGuinness, ...
During the last ten years the approach to business management has deeply changed, and companies have understood the importance of enforcing achievement of the goals defined by the...