In this paper, we propose a new efficient and secure micro-payment scheme, named e-coupons, which can provide the users the facility of delegating their spending capability to oth...
Traditionally, network operators have only used simple flat-rate unlimited data plans to vie for customers. But today, with the popularity of mobile devices and exponential growt...
Soumya Sen, Carlee Joe-Wong, Sangtae Ha, Mung Chia...
Communities of practice are not a new idea, but they are being looked at more closely as an important tool for learning and mastering knowledge challenges. Communities of practice...
The easy deployment of P2P self-organized systems has contributed to their wide diffusion and to the definition of a new communication paradigm. Mobile communities can now sponta...
Grid computing has been presented as a way to share geographically and organizationally distributed resources and to perform successfully distributed computation. For achieve this ...