Abstract. As mobility permeates into todays computing and communication arena, we envision application infrastructures that will increasingly rely on mobile technologies. Tradition...
Rapid advances in networking, hardware, and middleware technologies are facilitating the development and deployment of complex grid applications, such as large-scale distributed co...
Many of the data-centric network services deployed today hold massive volumes of data at their origin websites, and access the data to dynamically generate responses to user reque...
Location-based applications and services are getting increasingly important for mobile users. They take into account a mobile user's current location and provide a location-d...
Across a wide variety of fields, huge datasets are being collected and accumulated at a dramatical pace. The datasets addressed by individual applications are very often heteroge...