There are many applications for Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMC), but practical adoption is still an issue. One reason is that the business model of the application does not m...
—Context, the pieces of information that capture the characteristics of ubiquitous computing environment, is often imprecise and incomplete due to user mobility, unreliable wirel...
— Low energy consumption is a critical issue in embedded systems design. As the technology feature sizes of SoC (Systems on Chip) become smaller and smaller, the percentage of le...
Fault tolerance is a constant concern in data centers where servers have to run with a minimal level of failures. Changes on the operating conditions or on server demands, and var...
Abstract—Precise evaluation of network appliance energy consumption is necessary to accurately model or simulate the power consumption of distributed systems. In this paper we ev...
Helmut Hlavacs, Georges Da Costa, Jean-Marc Pierso...
Broadening adoption of social media applications within the enterprise offers a new and valuable data source for insight into the social structure of organizations. Social media ap...
An important aspect in social computing is the structure of social networks, which build the underlying substrate for the exchange of information. With the growing importance of mi...
Abstract--Web 2.0 users have many choices of contenthosting or application-service providers (CSPs). It can be difficult for a user to share content with a set of real-life friends...
A lifetime of several years for wireless sensor nodes can be achieved if their activity period is minimized. This can be done by using low duty cycle protocols. One of the challeng...
Marcin Brzozowski, Hendrik Salomon, Peter Langendo...