Information is valuable to users when it is available not only at the right time but also at the right place. To support efficient location-based data access in wireless data broad...
Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Ken C. K. Lee, Dik L...
We describe the XenoSearch system for performing expressive resource discovery searches in a distributed environment. We represent server meta-data, such as their locations and fa...
DKAL is a new declarative authorization language for distributed systems. It is based on existential fixed-point logic and is considerably more expressive than existing authoriza...
Abstract. Term-partitioned indexes are generally inefficient for the evaluation of conjunctive queries, as they require the communication of long posting lists. On the other side, ...
In this paper we study in-network query processing in disconnected mobile environments, where both ad-hoc communication and infrastructure communication are available. Depending o...