Big data presents new challenges to both cluster infrastructure software and parallel application design. We present a set of software services and design principles for data inte...
Yogesh Simmhan, Roger S. Barga, Catharine van Inge...
Policy-based messaging (PBM) aims at carrying security policies with messages, which will be enforced at recipient systems to provide security features. PBM promotes a distributed...
Abstract. In this paper, we further develop the idea of combining pervasive computing techniques with electronic payment systems to create activity-based micro-incentives. Economic...
The work addresses the problem of coping with a diversity of location tracking techniques available in ubiquitous computing environments. We investigate how this diversity can be e...
—Quality-of-service (QoS) management often requires a continuous monitoring service to provide updated information about different hosts and network links in the managed system. ...