One of the main obstacles to the adoption of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) outside the research community is the lack of high level mechanisms to easily program them. This probl...
Abstract. Caching frequently accessed data at the client is an attractive technique for improving access time. In a mobile computing environment, client location becomes a piece of...
Jianliang Xu, Xueyan Tang, Dik Lun Lee, Qinglong H...
We present e cient algorithms for several instances of the following facility location problem. Facilities and demand sites are represented as points in the plane. Place k obnoxio...
1 Service discovery protocols are used in distributed systems to locate services for clients. The services that are located as well as the clients requesting service are commonly a...
If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...