Security is a critical issue in mobile commerce, especially in mobile database systems since mobile environments are dynamic and traditional protection mechanisms do not work very...
Increasingly, manufacturing companies are shifting their focus from selling products to providing services. As a result, when designing new products, engineers must increasingly c...
Many object-oriented frameworks exhibit a high density of design pattern applications. Usually, there are more instances in a framework than there are abstract classes. Yet, only ...
Dirk Riehle, Roger Brudermann, Thomas R. Gross, Ka...
Developers of complex systems have to address concerns such as security, availability of services, and timeliness that often are non-orthogonal to traditional design structures, t...
Discovery of services and other named resources is expected to be a crucial feature for the usability of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). In this paper, we propose a mechanism for...