Pervasive systems are complex distributed systems containing heterogeneous and mobile devices, services and applications. Policy-based management is an effective approach for mana...
The capabilities of current mobile devices, especially PDAs, are making it possible to design and develop mobile applications that employ visual techniques for using geographic da...
Sharing huge, massively distributed databases in P2P systems is inherently difficult. As the amount of stored data increases, data localization techniques become no longer suffici...
Rabab Hayek, Guillaume Raschia, Patrick Valduriez,...
: Previous multidimensional dynamic hashing schemes exhibit two obvious shortcomings. First, even for uniform record distribution, the retrieval performance of these schemes suffer...
— The EPC Network is an industry proposal to build a global information architecture for objects carrying RFID tags with Electronic Product Codes (EPC). A so-called Object Naming...