Wireless sensor networks (WSN) consist of small self-contained devices with computational, sensing and wireless communication capabilities. They allow flexible, powerful, tetherles...
Release consistency is a widely accepted memory model for distributed shared memory systems. Eager release consistency represents the state of the art in release consistent protoc...
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The full integration of information retrieval (IR) features into a database management system (DBMS) has long been recognized as both a significant goal and a challenging undertak...
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Mobile sensing is difficult without power. Emerging Computational RFIDs (CRFIDs) provide both sensing and generalpurpose computation without batteries--instead relying on small ca...
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The mobile phone industry has reached a saturation point. With low growth rates and fewer new customers available to acquire, competition among mobile operators is now focused on ...
Giovanni Giuffrida, Catarina Sismeiro, Giuseppe Tr...