SMS-based web search is different from traditional web search in that the final response to a search query is limited to a very small number of bytes (typically 1-2 SMS messages...
Jay Chen, Brendan Linn, Lakshminarayanan Subramani...
Abstract. Modern mobile phones and PDAs are equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS). Users can access public location-based services (e.g., Google Maps) and ask spatial ...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Spiros Skiadopoulos
The need to allow threads to abort an attempt to acquire a lock (sometimes called a timeout) is an interesting new requirement driven by state-of-the-art database applications wit...
The lack of a flexible consistency management solution hinders P2P implementation of applications involving updates, such as read-write file sharing, directory services, online ...
Human-memorable passwords are a mainstay of computer security. To decrease vulnerability of passwords to bruteforce dictionary attacks, many organizations enforce complicated pass...