New challenges to the database field brought about by the rapidly growing area of wireless personal communication are presented. Preliminary solutions to two of the major problems...
Abstract—Multimedia applications for mobile devices are increasing and growing more sophisticated. Many of these applications require computationally intensive processing, such a...
Carri W. Chan, Nicholas Bambos, Jatinder Pal Singh
Abstract. We compare the expressive power of process calculi by studying the problem of electing a leader in a symmetric network of processes. We consider the π-calculus with mixe...
Maria Grazia Vigliotti, Iain Phillips, Catuscia Pa...
Ubiquitous computing is a next generation information technology where computers and communications will be scaled further, merged together, and materialized in consumer applicati...
Customers are usually passive in an electronic commerce transaction. Based on a new two times concurrent signature, this article presents a fair electronic payment (E-payment) pro...