In this article we describe the Sweep-Shake system, a novel, low interaction cost approach to supporting the spontaneous discovery of geo-located information. By sweeping a mobile...
It is now commonly accepted that security and dependability largely represent two different aspects of an overall meta-concept that reflects the trust that we put in a computer s...
The situation in engineering security for Web services that access databases is as follows: On the one hand, specifications like WSSecurity are concerned with the security managem...
Martin Wimmer, Daniela Eberhardt, Pia Ehrnlechner,...
Driven by the ubiquitous deployment of mobile systems, the widespread use of the Internet, the rapid advances in wireless technologies, the insatiable demand for high-speed interac...
Consumers of resources in realistic applications (e.g., web, multimedia) typically derive diminishing-return utilities from the amount of resource they receive. A resource provide...