Space, vast lands and dungeons… It is no coincidence that Space War and Adventure are among the best known of the first computer games. Both clearly appeal to the player’s cur...
This paper focuses on time-based declarative languages. The use of declarative languages has the advantage of their simplicity and gh-level abstraction, usually requiring few or n...
In ubiquitous computing environment, people carrying their mobile devices (eg., mobile phone, PDA, embedded devices) expect to access locally hosted services or resources anytime, ...
This paper shows how a state-of-the-art software distributed shared-memory (DSM) protocol can be efficiently extended to tolerate single-node failures. In particular, we extend a ...
Materialized XPath access-control views are commonly used for enforcing access control. When access control rules defining a materialized XML access-control view change, the view...