The emergence of portable computers and wireless technologies has introduced new challenges for middleware. Mobility brings new requirements and is becoming a key characteristic. M...
Information about the user's environment offers new opportunities and exposes new challenges in terms of time-aware, location-aware, device-aware and personalized application...
Thomas Hofer, Wieland Schwinger, Mario Pichler, Ge...
We give an efficient protocol for sequence comparisons of the edit-distance kind, such that neither party reveals anything about their private sequence to the other party (other t...
Mikhail J. Atallah, Florian Kerschbaum, Wenliang D...
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,...
Abstract—This paper addresses the problem of execution time estimation for tasks in a software pipeline independent of the application structure or the underlying architecture. A...