The rise of GPS and broadband-speed wireless devices has led to tremendous excitement about a range of applications broadly characterized as "location based services". Cu...
Data replication is an excellent technique to move and cache data close to users. By replication, data access performance can be improved dramatically. One of the challenges in da...
The µKlaim calculus is a process algebra designed to study the programming of distributed systems consisting of a number of locations each having their own tuple space and collec...
Pinpoint is a promising first step towards using a rich model of task context in proactive and dynamic IR systems. Pinpoint allows a user to navigate decision tree representations...
Larry Birnbaum, Wallace J. Hopp, Seyed M. R. Irava...
Enforcing rich policies in open environments will increasingly require the ability to dynamically identify external sources of information necessary to enforce different policies (...