For nearest neighbor search, a user queries a server for nearby points of interest (POIs) with his/her location information. Our aim is to protect the user’s sensitive informatio...
—The ever increasing scale and complexity of large computational systems ask for sophisticated management tools, paving the way toward Autonomic Computing. A first step toward A...
The paper addresses the challenges and opportunities of instrumenting pervasive computing systems with a logical clock, aware of the quality of synchronization with respect to a t...
Andrea Bondavalli, Andrea Ceccarelli, Lorenzo Fala...
Abstract— Component-based applications require good middleware support. In particular, business logic should be separated from management code for guaranteeing nonfunctional prop...
The paper describes the design of FAME (Flexible Access Middleware Extension) architecture aimed at providing multi-level user authentication service for Shibboleth, which is endo...
Aleksandra Nenadic, Ning Zhang, Jay Chin, Carole A...