Abstract. Various forms of pervasive computing environments are being deployed in an increasing number of areas including healthcare, home automation, and military. This evolution ...
One of the most ubiquitous elements of modern computing is the relational database. Very few modern applications are created without some sort of database backend. Unfortunately, r...
Abstract. Formal policies allow the non-ambiguous definition of situations in which usage of certain entities are allowed, and enable the automatic evaluation whether a situation i...
Transparent system support for software fault tolerance reduces performance in general and precludes application-specific optimizations in particular. In contrast, explicit support...
The recent enormous increase in the use of networked information access and on-line databases has led to more databases being available in languages other than English. The Center...