Proactively providing services to mobile individuals is essential for emerging ubiquitous applications. The major challenge in providing users with proactive services lies in cont...
Personalized database systems give users answers tailored to their personal preferences. While numerous preference evaluation methods for databases have been proposed (e.g., skylin...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...
Data protection legislation was originally defined for a context where personal information is mostly stored on centralized servers with limited connectivity or openness to 3rd pa...
Scratches on old films must be removed since these are more noticeable on higher definition and digital televisions. Wires that suspend actors or cars must be carefully erased dur...
While distributed, heterogeneous collections of computers (“Grids”) can in principle be used as a computing platform, in practice the problems of first discovering and then co...
Chuang Liu, Lingyun Yang, Ian T. Foster, Dave Angu...