New consumer appliances such as PDA, Set Top Box, GSM/UMTS terminals enable an easy access to the internet and strongly contribute to the development of ecommerce and m-commerce s...
Marc Renaudin, G. Fraidy Bouesse, Ph. Proust, J. P...
The heterogeneity and unpredictability of grid computing environments is a severe challenge to algorithm selection for large-scale scientific codes. This paper discusses a set of ...
Prachi Bora, Calvin J. Ribbens, Sandeep Prabhakar,...
Even though grid research is prosperous in an extensive context, few grid platforms for high performance computing are practical and in operation so far. Since most applications a...
Abstract Traditional nearest-neighbor (NN) search is based on two basic indexing approaches: object-based indexing and solution-based indexing. The former is constructed based on t...
Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
Abstract. Location privacy is of utmost concern for location-based services. It is the property that a person’s location is revealed to other entities, such as a service provider...