Databases have employed a schema-based approach to store and retrieve structured data for decades. For peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, similar approaches are just beginning to emerge,...
Software development can be thought of as the evolution act requirements into a concrete software system. The evolution, achieved through a successive series of elaborations and r...
Jamie L. Smith, Shawn A. Bohner, D. Scott McCricka...
We consider the problem of assisting vulnerable people and their carers to reduce the occurrence, and concomitant consequences, of accidents in the home. A wireless sensor network ...
Hamid K. Aghajan, Juan Carlos Augusto, Chen Wu, Pa...
Commodity computer systems contain more and more processor cores and exhibit increasingly diverse architectural tradeoffs, including memory hierarchies, interconnects, instructio...
Modern virtual machines, such as Java and Inferno, are emerging as network computing s. While these virtual machines provide higher-level abstractions and more sophisticated servi...