When ubiquitous computing devices access a contextawareness service, such as a location service, they need some assurance that the quality of the information received is trustwort...
Given a social network, who is the best person to introduce you to, say, Chris Ferguson, the poker champion? Or, given a network of people and skills, who is the best person to he...
Abstract. With the digitization of society and the continuous migration of services to the electronic world, individuals have lost significant control over their data. In this pap...
: Writing applications are currently designed for desktop personal computers. Mobile devices like PDAs or smart phones are increasingly being used for mobile applications such as a...
We describe our work in implementing a wide-area distributed file system for the NSF TeraGrid. The system, called XUFS, allows private distributed name spaces to be created for tr...