In this paper, we motivate the importance of the field of mobile computing and survey current practical and formal approaches. We argue that the existing formalisms are not suffic...
Klaus Bergner, Radu Grosu, Andreas Rausch, Alexand...
Semistructured databases are treated as dynamically typed: they come equipped with no independent schema or type system to constrain the data. Query languages that are designed fo...
Many world wide web applications require access, transfer, and synchronization of large multimedia data objects (MDOs) (such as, audio, video, and images) across the communication...
Many applications require the clustering of large amounts of high-dimensional data. Most clustering algorithms, however, do not work e ectively and e ciently in highdimensional sp...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...