— The design and the implementation of software for mobile computers and for pervasive computing environments entail several issues and lead to new requirements. Applications mus...
Davide Carboni, Andrea Piras, Stefano Sanna, Gavin...
Many of today's virtual environment applications, such as massively multi-player online games, involve a large and rapidly changing set of users. The server-based architectur...
Global communication costs in future single-chip multiprocessors will increase linearly with distance. In this paper, we revisit the issues of locality and load balance in order to...
Many embedded applications exist where decisions are made using sensitive information. A critical issue in such applications is to ensure that data is accessed only by authorized ...
Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Ri...
Applications that rely on replicated data have different requirements for how their data is managed. For example, some applications may require that updates propagate amongst repl...
Douglas B. Terry, Karin Petersen, Mike Spreitzer, ...