Understanding collaborative work practices represents a critical factor in and a necessary fundament for the development of effective Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) ...
Task Scheduling is a critical design issue of distributed computing. The emerging Grid computing infrastructure consists of heterogeneous resources in widely distributed autonomous...
Several challenging new applications demand the ability to do data mining on resource constrained devices. One such application is that of monitoring physiological data streams ob...
Moving object databases store and process data for objects that change location frequently. Materialized views maintained over time must be updated to reflect changes due to the m...
A secure multicast framework should only allow authorized members of a group to decrypt received messages; usually, one ‘‘group key’’ is shared by all approved members. Ho...