Users have been demanding information “anytime, anywhere”. The notion of accessing diverse and autonomous information repositories with different APIs is not accepted. This ha...
—In the offshore engineering community, reliable deep-water anchor performance is critical for mooring floating platforms such as Mobile Offshore Drilling Units. In a typical in...
Pervasive computing introduces data management requirements that must be tackled in a growingvariety of lightweight computing devices. Personal folders on chip, networks of sensor...
The ability of communicating with a selected party anonymously is an important aspect of network security. Communicating anonymously means that no adversary can discern who is com...
—This paper considers the problem of pricing and transmission scheduling for an Access Point (AP) in a wireless network, where the AP provides service to a set of mobile users. T...