Trust is an important tool in human life, as it enables people to cope with the uncertainty caused by the free will of others. Uncertainty and uncontrollability are also issues in ...
There are many problems requiring a semantic account of a database schema. At its best, such an account consists of mapping formulas between the schema and a formal conceptual mode...
Abstract. Erasure of information incurs an increase in entropy and dissipates heat. Therefore, information-preserving computation is essential for constructing computers that use e...
In an effort to support the development of context-aware applications that use archived sensor data, we introduce the concept of the Context Cube based on techniques of data wareho...
Lonnie D. Harvel, Ling Liu, Gregory D. Abowd, Yu-X...
This paper addresses the problem of pay-as-you-watch services over unicast and multicast communications. For each communication model, we present two solutions, non-verifiable and...