Abstract—Home area networks (HANs) promise to enable sophisticated home automation applications such as smart energy usage and assisted living. However, recent empirical study of...
Application servers provide many functionalities commonly needed in the development of a complex distributed application. So far, the functionalities have mostly been developed an...
Daniel Oberle, Andreas Eberhart, Steffen Staab, Ra...
We propose a novel string search algorithm for data stored once and read many times. Our search method combines the sublinear traversal of the record (as in Boyer Moore or Knuth-M...
Witold Litwin, Riad Mokadem, Philippe Rigaux, Thom...
The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a superdatabase. Our ...
In pervasive computing environments, mobile devices communicate via wireless links without requiring any fixed infrastructure. These devices must be able to discover and share ser...