Today’s global markets demand global processes. Increasingly, these processes are not only distributed, but also contain mobile aspects. We discuss two challenges brought about b...
We describe the design of a Windows file-system directory service that ensures the persistence, integrity, privacy, syntactic legality, and case-insensitive uniqueness of the name...
John R. Douceur, Atul Adya, Josh Benaloh, William ...
The fast growth in airline passenger traffic combined with the slow growth in airport capacity worldwide is putting a severe strain on the capability of airlines to adapt their pr...
Jane L. Snowdon, Soad El-Taji, Mario Montevecchi, ...
Conventional concurrency control protocols are inapplicable in mobile broadcast environments due to a number of constraints of wireless communications. Previous studies are focuse...
Victor C. S. Lee, Kwok-Wa Lam, Sang Hyuk Son, Eddi...
With the increasing number of mobile commerce facilities, there are challenges in providing customers useful recommendations about interesting products and services. In this paper...