Distributed information management plays a fundamental role within the base infrastructure supporting the elderly care domain. Specificities of this domain include the autonomy and...
— Pervasive and ubiquitous computing is enabling the implementation of “smart environments”, i.e., environments where applications support and enhance the abilities of their ...
The Burrows-Wheeler transformation is used for effective data compression, e.g., in the well known program bzip2. Compression and decompression are done in a block-wise fashion; la...
A variant of the Mobile Ambient calculus, called Boundary Ambients, is introduced, supporting the modelling of multi-level security policies. Ambients that may guarantee to proper...
Work on early tiny database systems, like TinyDB [17] and Cougar [23] has shown that a declarative approach can provide a powerful and easy to use interface for collecting data fr...
Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Samuel...