Mobile ad-hoc networks are typically very dynamic networks in terms of available communication partners, available network resources, connectivity, etc. Furthermore, the end-user ...
Thomas Plagemann, Vera Goebel, Carsten Griwodz, P&...
Abstract Sensor devices produce data that are unreliable, low-level, and seldom able to be used directly by applications. In this paper, we propose Metaphysical Data Independence (...
Shawn R. Jeffery, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Ga...
How to manage confidential data in the grid environment is a critical issue because users’ data can be saved in untrusted remote storages. This paper introduces a service to sto...
The World Wide Web has transformed itself in the last few years from a simple state-less multimedia platform to a global distributed processing environment. As Web computing gains...