IBM's SMART (Self-Managing And Resource Tuning) project aims to make DB2 selfmanaging, i.e. autonomic, to decrease the total cost of ownership and penetrate new markets. Over...
The design of very small databases for smart cards and for portable embedded systems is deeply constrained by the peculiar features of the physical medium. Privacy concerns are re...
The idea of ubiquitous computing and smart environments is no longer a dream and has long become a serious area of research and soon this technology will start entering our every d...
In 2000, Sun proposed an efficient remote user authentication scheme using smart cards without requiring a password table. However, the password of a user is an un-human lengthy p...
Real-time applications such as multimedia audio and video are increasingly populating the workstation desktop. To support the execution of these applications in conjunction with t...