“Client Services”, “User Services”, “Customer Service”: whatever we call it at our various colleges and universities, it’s not just about fixing hardware and softwar...
Today’s autonomous and heterogeneous information systems have an increasing necessity of exchanging data. As widely known, middleware systems have been successfully adopted as i...
With the growth of wireless and mobile technologies, we are witnessing an increase in location-based services (LBS). Although LBS provide enhanced functionalities, they open up ne...
—Traditional hierarchical namespaces are not sufficient for representing and managing the rich semantics of today’s storage systems. In this paper, we discuss the principles o...
Zhichen Xu, Magnus Karlsson, Chunqiang Tang, Chris...
The third generation of mobile networks aims to offer services diversified to users, while guaranteeing acceptable QoS. This results in the setting up of strategies of increasingl...