Organizing massive amount of data on wireless communication networks in order to provide
fast and low power access to users equipped with palmtops, is a new challenge to the data …

Despite nearly 20 years of progress toward ubiquitous computer connectivity, distributed
computing systems have only recently emerged to play a serious role in industry and …

Mobile computing has the potential for managing information globally. Data management
issues in mobile computing have received some attention in recent times, and the design of …

Broadcasting is an effective means of disseminating information in a wireless environment to
a large number of clients with powerful palmtops. However, it requires the clients to be …

Caching of frequently accessed data items can reduce the bandwidth requirement in a
mobile wireless computing environment. Periodically broadcast of invalidation reports is an …

In a mobile computing system, the wireless communication bandwidth is a scarce resource
that needs to be managed carefully. In this paper, we investigate the use of distributed …

The use of mobile computers is gaining popularity. The number of users with laptops,
notebooks is increasing and this trend is likely to continue in to the future where the number …

This paper addresses the needs of application designers whowould like to tell an automated
assistant the following:“Here is aquery that defines a view I want to materialize within …

In this paper we propose a new mobile system architecture, called the Client-Representative-
Agent-Server (CRAS) architecture. While developing this architecture, an attempt is being …

Innovations of modern digital radio technology has enabled many large mobile and
distributed information systems, such as inventory tracking systems, to provide readily …