Now that smart phones can interact with computers through various interface technologies such as Bluetooth, infrared, or the 802.11 family of IEEE specifications, they are workin...
—In hop-by-hop networks, provision of multipath routes for all nodes can improve fault tolerance and performance. In this paper we study the multipath route calculation by constr...
The UML goal of being a general-purpose modeling language discards the possibility to adopt too precise and strict a semantics. Users are to refine or define the semantics in th...
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...
Smart environments (e.g., airports, hospitals, stadiums, and other physical spaces using ubiquitous computing to empower many mobile people) provide novel challenges for usability...