Mechanism design is the art of designing the rules of the game (aka. mechanism) so that a desirable outcome (according to a given objective) is reached despite the fact that each a...
Elements of transaction processing become more and more accepted as a base for general purpose distributed computing.We have developed an action concept with an extended functiona...
The key to increasing performance without a commensurate increase in power consumption in modern processors lies in increasing both parallelism and core specialization. Core speci...
This paper describes a different approach to teaching a web-applications course. Rather than lecturing, the instructor organizes material and serves as a guide as students work th...
Most of existing mobile services were designed based on the client/server architecture. Those mobile services neither paid much attention to mobile users' interactions with t...