Distributed virtual environments allow users at di erent geographical locations to share and interact within a common virtual environment via a local network or through the Intern...
Jimmy H. P. Chim, Rynson W. H. Lau, Antonio Si, Ho...
This paper proposes a strategy for parallel composite event detection in Active database systems (DBS). Up to now, the detection is sequential and totally synchronized, and thus p...
: Privacy is one of the most important properties of an information system must satisfy, in which systems the need to share information among different, not trusted entities, the p...
This paper describes a variant of the actor model suited to the development of multimedia systems. The actor model centers on non-overkilling concurrency and customizable constrai...
In South-East Asia, huge swarms of fireflies synchronously emit light flashes to attract mating partners. The underlying principle can be used to implement a robust and scalable d...