Success of peer-to-peer applications in many cases is attributed to user altruism, where a user contributes some of its own resources to facilitate performance of other users. Thi...
Systems that use or serve multimedia data require timely access to data on hard drives. To ensure adequate performance users must either prevent overload of disk resources, or use...
The emergence of fully-automated Web service composition as a potential facilitator of both eBusiness and ambient or ubiquitous computing is to be welcomed. However this emergence ...
The usefulness of the results produced by data mining methods can be critically impaired by several factors such as (1) low quality of data, including errors due to contamination, ...
Fang Chu, Yizhou Wang, Carlo Zaniolo, Douglas Stot...
Location-awareness and prediction of future locations is an important problem in pervasive and mobile computing. In cellular systems (e.g., GSM) the serving cell is easily availabl...