Abstract—Pervasive vehicle-mounted mobile devices are increasingly common, and can be viewed as a large-scale ad hoc network on which collaborative, location-based services can b...
Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Li-Shiuan Peh, Margaret Mar...
Context-aware computing is a computing paradigm in which applications can take advantage of contextual information. Quality of network connection is a very important factor for mob...
Nowadays, grid and peer-to-peer (p2p) technologies have become popular solutions for large-scale resource sharing and system integration. For e-science workflow systems, grid is a...
Yun Yang, Ke Liu, Jinjun Chen, Joel Lignier, Hai J...
Cloud computing systems are becoming an important platform for science applications. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds provide the capability to provision virtual machines...
Recently, there have been proposals for scaling-up a database system using lazy replication. In these proposals, system scale-up is achieved through the addition of secondary site...