Abstract. Modern mobile phones and PDAs are equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS). Users can access public location-based services (e.g., Google Maps) and ask spatial ...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Spiros Skiadopoulos
This tutorial presents the definition, the models and the techniques of location privacy from the data privacy perspective. By reviewing and revising the state of art research in ...
— Advance reservation is a mechanism to guarantee the availability of resources when they are needed. In the context of LambdaGrid, this mechanism is used to provide data-intensi...
Although many QoS management architectures have been recently introduced with a lot of advanced features, they have never been widely used in the existing applications due to the ...
An important factor that needs to be taken into account by end-users and systems (schedulers, resource brokers, policy brokers) when mapping applications to the Grid, is the perfo...