The development of the infrastructure for ubiquitous computing is progressing rapidly, yet the applications that will be built on this new infrastructure remain largely ill define...
Shareable data services providing consistency guarantees, such as atomicity (linearizability), make building distributed systems easier. However, combining linearizability with ef...
Chryssis Georgiou, Peter M. Musial, Alexander A. S...
Database outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular introducing a new paradigm, called database-as-a-service (DAS), where an organization’s database is stored at an external s...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
Emerging peer-to-peer services such as Freenet, Gnutella, Kazaa, and Napster provide an easy and efficient way to share resources and information. However, misuse or unfair exploit...
Hoh Peter In, Konstantinos A. Meintanis, Ming Zhan...
With the increasing use of mobile and nomadic communication devices requirements for security and privacy are rising as well. Following brief surveys of existing approaches to mob...