Nowadays, an increasing number of objects can be represented by their wireless electronic identifiers. For example, people can be recognized by their phone numbers or their phone...
Boying Zhang, Jin Teng, Junda Zhu, Xinfeng Li, Don...
One of the most difficult tasks in the design of information systems is how to control the behaviour of the back-end storage engine, usually a relational database. As the load on t...
This paper presents a general-purpose distributed lookup service, denoted Passive Distributed Indexing (PDI). PDI stores entries in form of (key, value) pairs in index caches loca...
This paper presents an open protocol for interoperability across multi-vendor programmable smart cards. It allows exposition of on-card storage and cryptographic services to host ...
Tommaso Cucinotta, Marco Di Natale, David Corcoran
Mobile code computation has lead to a new paradigm of distributed computation. A mobile process can move from site to site and interact with the resources as a local process. To p...