Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has recently received a lot of attention as an augmentation and interface technology with physical and virtual objects in the ubiquitous comp...
Jae Yeol Lee, Dong Woo Seo, Byung Youn Song, Rajit...
: RDF-based tools promise to provide a base for reasoning about metadata and about situated data—data describing entities situated in time and space—that is superior to alterna...
—Personal data is a valuable asset for service providers. To collect such data, free services are offered to users, for whom the risk of loosing privacy by subscribing to a servi...
Harold van Heerde, Maarten M. Fokkinga, Nicolas An...
The disparity between microprocessor clock frequencies and memory latency is a primary reason why many demanding applications run well below peak achievable performance. Software c...
Joseph Gebis, Leonid Oliker, John Shalf, Samuel Wi...
Federated transaction management (also known as multidatabase transaction management in the literature) is needed to ensure the consistency of data that is distributed across mult...