A review of Mobile Applications: Architecture, Design, and Development by Valentino Lee, Heather Schneider, and Robbie Schell.

Distributed computing using PCs volunteered by the public can provide high computing capacity at low cost. However, computational results from volunteered PCs have a non-negligible error rate, so result validation is needed to ensure overall correctness. ...

In the paper, we identify a problem for certainapplications wishing to use the web service paradigm toenhance interoperability: rapid, robust statemaintenance. While many features are available tosupport session data, special mechanisms for applicationstate ...

This paper develops a new method for prefetching Web pages into the client cache. Clients send reference information to Web servers, which aggregate the reference information in near-real-time and then disperse the aggregated information to all clients, ...

Job allocation and scheduling for data transfer is a fundamental issue for achieving high performance in Data Grid environments. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm that combines job allocation with scheduling dynamically based on resource quality. ...

Generative communication is the basis of a new distributed programming langauge that is intended for systems programming in distributed settings generally and on integrated network computers in particular. It differs from previous interprocess communication ...

Pangaea is a wide-area file system that supports data sharing among a community of widely distributed users. It is built on a symmetrically decentralized infrastructure that consists of commodity computers provided by the end users. Computers act autonomously ...

Network operators can play an essential role in turning widely investigated context-aware services into a commercial reality. The Nokia Siemens Networks NEON project aims to develop a virtual network operator environment that can leverage the opportunities ...

Large scale computing systems which can run for unlimited time and can evolve over time have a growing demand in this modern information society. Soft System Buses (SSBs) were proposed to provide middleware platform support to such computing systems. ...

Among the five goals of peer-to-peer security, file authenticity and fair trading have attracted the most attention. Reputation and incentive are two traditional systems to deal with file authenticity and fair trading problems, respectively. In this ...

This paper, which is a compilation of the experiences of a number of software developers, is an attempt to guard the software community against the pitfalls of the EJB technology. It presents an anthology of experience that might help application developers ...

An often-discussed mobile commerce application is proximity-based coupon delivery. In a typical scenario a merchant is notified when a valued customer is within some distance of a retail outlet, upon which the customer is delivered a coupon or some notice ...

Honeypots have been shown to be very useful for accurately detecting attacks, including zero-day threats, at a reasonable cost and without false positives. However, there are two pressing problems with existing approaches. The first problem is that timely ...

The design and implementation of SemreX is studied in this paper, which is a semantic Peer-to-Peer (P2P) scientific references sharing system. Compared with other systems, SemreX extracts the bibliographic information from the PDF file directly, categorizes ...

Networked multimedia information systems willplay a critical role for the emerging telemedicineapplications. Innovations in hardware andsoftware technologies are feeding this revolution.In this paper, the notion of quality of service(QoS) for communication ...

Obviously, network proximity is an essential characteristic for overlay network construction. By selecting the nearest neighbor for the target node, large-scale distributed applications can decrease the communication cost and improve the performance ...

Location is considered as the most important and relevant context information. Bluetooth technology, being a common feature of commercial mobile devices, is a (or the) key technology that is pervasively available nowadays. There has been not much success ...

In this paper, we propose a simple and optimal causal broadcast protocol which copes with the dynamically changing groups in mobile environments. The protocol depends on two simples, yet powerful ideas. The first consists in the use of the immediate ...