We start with the usual paradigm in electronic commerce: a consumer who wants to buy from a merchant. However, both parties wish to enjoy maximal privacy. In addition to remaining...
Passive RFID technology and unobtrusive Bluetoothenabled active tags are means to augment products and everyday objects with information technology invisible to human users. This ...
Most clusters so far have used WAN or LAN-based network products for communication due to their market availability. However, they do not always match communication patterns in cl...
Distributed application programmers rely on middleware such as CORBA in order to handle the complexity that arises from the distributed and heterogeneous nature of the underlying ...
Continuity of stream playback is the crucial constraint in designing a continuous media server. From a distributed memory architectural model developed earlier, we found that ther...