Traditional database technology may be extended by taking advantage of the facilities of an integrated persistent programming environment. This paper focuses on how such an enviro...
Richard C. H. Connor, Quintin I. Cutts, Graham N. ...
Current social networks implement very simple protection mechanisms, according to which a user can state whether his/her personal data, relationships, and resources should be eith...
Context delivery is an inevitable issue for ubiquitous computing. Context-aware middlewares perform all the functions of context sensing, inferring and delivery to context-aware ap...
Lenin Mehedy, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Young-Koo Lee, Sun...
High-performance execution in distributed computing environments often requires careful selection and configuration not only of computers, networks, and other resources but also o...
Steven Fitzgerald, Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, ...
Pervasive computing allows data to be collected using sensors and mobile devices. Recent studies, however, show that in emergency and crisis situations conventional access control ...