In a variety of applications, ranging from data integration to distributed query evaluation, there is a need to obtain sets of data items from several sources (peers) and compute ...
Today, most mobile devices (e.g. PDAs) are in some way associated to a fixed personal computer or server. In general this relation is only taken into account for synchronization p...
This paper considers central issues of distributed computing in a mobile environment. Its aim is to light on the first brick of a common view for mobile systems. We pool together...
This paper addresses issues of user interface design, relating to ease of use, of handheld CSCW. In particular, we are concerned with the requirements that arise from situations i...
In the setting of secure multiparty computation, a set of parties wish to to jointly compute some function of their input (i.e., they wish to securely carry out some distributed t...