Global systems – systems which may operate over transient networks including mobile elements and in which computation itself may be mobile – are gaining in importance. Neverthe...
Hubert Baumeister, Nora Koch, Piotr Kosiuczenko, P...
A set of presentations covering the book, which includes the following topics ER Model and Conceptual Design, The Relational Model and SQL DDL, Relational Algebra, SQL, Database Ap...
Process calculi are mathematical tools used for modeling and analyzing the structure and behavior of reactive systems. One such calculus, called APi-calculus (an extension to Pi-ca...
Reputation systems have been popular in estimating the trustworthiness and predicting the future behavior of nodes in a large-scale distributed system where nodes may transact wit...
A significant number of mobile payment systems have been proposed in recent years, most of them based on a scenario where all the entities are directly connected one to another (fo...