: Simplifying data programming is a core mission of data management research. The issue at stake is to help engineers build efficient and robust data-centric applications. The fron...
Trust is a critical issue in e-commerce and e-service environments. In some applications (such as eBay), the trust management mechanisms have been introduced to provide valuable i...
In this paper, we explore a new paradigm for data management in which a third party service provider hosts "database as a service" providing its customers seamless mecha...
Ad-hoc networks are perceived as communities of autonomous devices that interconnect with each other. Typically, they have dynamic topologies and cannot rely on a continuous conne...
— Due to the technological evolution, context-aware computing is slowly moving from dream to reality. These applications heavily rely in sensing the user’s environment and ing ...