This paper is an answer to the question: "What is unique and conceptually different about mobile computing?" The paper begins by describing a set of constraints intrinsi...
We consider the problem of computing, out of a set C of trees and a rewrite system R, those trees in C that cannot be rewritten into a tree in C. We solve this problem for sets of ...
Grid computing systems pool together the resources of many workstations to create a virtual computing reservoir. Users can "draw" resources using a pay-as-you-go model, c...
Large graph analysis has become increasingly important and is widely used in many applications such as web mining, social network analysis, biology, and information retrieval. The...
ions and concepts that let applications access and share resources and services across distributed, wide area networks, while providing common security semantics, distributed resou...
Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, Jeffrey M. Nick, St...