Abstract--Presence, broadly defined as an event publishnotification infrastructure for converged applications, has emerged as a key mechanism for collecting and disseminating conte...
Massive-scale self-administered networks like Peer-to-Peer and Sensor Networks have data distributed across thousands of participant hosts. These networks are highly dynamic with ...
The need of processing graph reachability queries stems from many applications that manage complex data as graphs. The applications include transportation network, Internet traffic...
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are increasingly managing very large sets of data and hence a centralized data repository may not always provide the most scalable solution. H...
Ad hoc networks, being able to organize themselves without user intervention, can easily provide their users with mobility, multimedia support and group communication. However, the...