Recommender Systems (RS) so far have been applied to many fields of e-commerce in order to assist users in finding the products that best meet their preferences. However, while th...
This paper evaluates the performance of two schemes for recovering lost data in a peer-to-peer (P2P) storage systems. The first scheme is centralized and relies on a server that r...
Location-aware computing enables automatic tailoring of information and services based on the current location of a mobile user. We have designed and implemented CMUseum, a system...
AbstractThe impact of the use of mobile devices by means of GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) technology to access environmental information in real time, provided by sensors str...
Conventional performance evaluation mechanisms focus on dedicated distributed systems. Grid computing infrastructure, on another hand, is a shared collaborative environment constr...