Abstract-- Sharing data among collaborators in widely distributed systems remains a challenge due to limitations with existing methods for defining groups across administrative dom...
— The medium-access control (MAC) protocols for wireless networks proposed or implemented to date based on collision-avoidance handshakes between sender and receiver either requi...
Query personalization was introduced as an advanced mechanism to allow the reformulation of database queries and adapt them to the user's domain of interest and preferences. ...
Users now interact with multiple Location-Based Services (LBS) through a myriad set of location-aware devices and interfaces. However, current LBS tend to be centralized silos wit...
Two or more components (e.g., objects, modules, or programs) interoperate when they exchange data, such as XML data. Using Application Programming Interface (API) calls exported b...