The publish/subscribe communication paradigm is an appealing mechanism for efficient content retrieval due to the decoupling of data sources and consumers. However, the location d...
In this paper we introduce the notion of a Public-Key Encryption Scheme that is also a Locally-Decodable Error-Correcting Code (PKLDC). In particular, we allow any polynomialtime ...
Sensor networks can be viewed as large distributed databases, and SQL-like high-level declarative languages can be used for data and information retrieval. Energy constraints make ...
As a user attention has become a precious resource, a special care has to be taken to reduce the time needed for answering queries in P2P networks. Existing solutions are usually ...
Abstract. A collection of user interface design patterns for workflow information systems is presented. Each Workflow User Interface Pattern (WUIP) is characterized by properties e...