This paper contains a set of personal views relating to NHS Connecting for Health’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT), and in particular its Care Records Service, written from t...
Distributed programming is applicable in a wide range of domains such as control systems. These systems are subject to mutable environments and must also provide a time varying ad...
Luci Pirmez, Luiz F. Rust da Costa Carmo, Reinaldo...
RFID-tags can be seen as a new generation of bar codes with added functionality. They are becoming very popular tools for identification of products in various applications such a...
Neil Bird, Claudine Conrado, Jorge Guajardo, Stefa...
A large portion of the government, business, cultural, and scientific digital data being created today needs to be archived and preserved for future use of periods ranging from a ...
Security is a critical issue in mobile commerce, especially in mobile database systems since mobile environments are dynamic and traditional protection mechanisms do not work very...