Freshness and accuracy are two key measures of quality of service (QoS) in location-based, mobile continual queries (CQs). However, it is often difficult to provide both fresh and ...
Decentralized Peer to Peer (P2P) networks offer both opportunities and threats. Its open and decentralized nature makes it extremely susceptible to malicious users spreading harmf...
"Open contribution systems" (OCS) are online applications that encourage users to contribute and share content in a "public" and open manner. While these syste...
Self-timed systems often have to communicate with their environment through a clocked interface. For example, off-chip memory may require clocking and this can reduce the benefit...
George S. Taylor, Simon W. Moore, Steve Wilcox, Pe...
Information explosion across the Internet and elsewhere offers access to an increasing number of document collections. In order for users to e ectively access these collections, i...