To provide data consistency in the presence of failures and concurrency, database methods will continue to be important to the processing of shared information in a mobile computi...
In this paper we consider privacy problems with anonymized transaction databases, i.e., transaction databases where the items are renamed in order to hide sensitive information. In...
— with the ubiquity of handheld devices people can now access information and conduct online transactions virtually anywhere and anytime. In such flexible but less reliable envir...
Traditional parallel programming styles have many problems which hinder the development of parallel applications. The message passing style can be too complex for many programmers...
Hardware transactional memory is a promising synchronization technology for chip-multiprocessors. It simplifies programming of concurrent applications and allows for higher concu...