Several research efforts as well as deployments have chosen IEEE 802.11 as a low-cost, long-distance access technology to bridge the digital divide. In this paper, we consider the...
While overall bandwidth in the internet has grown rapidly over the last few years, and an increasing number of clients enjoy broadband connectivity, many others still access the i...
Snapshot isolation (SI) provides significantly improved concurrency over 2PL, allowing reads to be non-blocking. Unfortunately, it can also lead to non-serializable executions in ...
Sudhir Jorwekar, Alan Fekete, Krithi Ramamritham, ...
It is increasingly recognised that user preferences should be addressed in many advanced database applications, such as adaptive searching in databases. However, the fundamental is...
We propose a novel tool, called objSampler, with which users can record and recall “encounters” with objects in ubiquitous computing environments. We encounter various things,...
Jun'ichi Yura, Hideaki Ogawa, Taizo Zushi, Jin Nak...