Abstract. In this chapter we discuss the susceptibility of critical information infrastructures to computer-borne attacks and faults, mainly due to their largely computerized natur...
Internet data centers (IDCs) perform multi-customer hosting on a virtualized collection of resources while Grid computing generalizes distributed computing by focusing on large sc...
Information integration is often faced with the problem that different data sources represent the same set of the real-world objects, but give conflicting values for specific prop...
A mobile robot requires perception of its local environment for both sensor based locomotion and for position estimation. Occupancy grids, based on ultrasonic range data, provide ...
In recent years, the rapid growth of m-commerce is being driven by various emerging mobile applications and services. Among them, mobile information service is considered to be on...