A ubiquitous information environment can be achieved by the mobile computing
technologies. In this environment, users carrying their portable computers can retrieve local …

In our increasingly mobile world the ability to access information on demand at any time and
place can satisfy people's information needs as well as confer on them a competitive …

The multidatabase system has proven to be efficient in managing information sharing and
data integration from multiple preexisting heterogeneous databases. Furthermore, advances …

Conventional concurrency control protocols are inapplicable in mobile computing
environments due to a number of constraints of wireless communication. In this paper, we …

Discusses the currency management mechanisms used in Deno, a replicated-object storage
system designed for use in mobile and weakly-connected environments. Deno primarily …

Mobile computing is a new emerging paradigm that enables mobile computers to access
information regardless of their physical location. Data management in this paradigm poses …

Limited execution capability, weak connections with the fixed network, frequent
disconnections, and mobility dictate naturally an optimistic mode for transaction execution at …

Modern communication technologies develop surprisingly quickly and are utilized
widespread. Many computer technologies also benefit from this exciting achievement. One …

A mobile environment is weakly-connected, characterized by low communication bandwidth
and poor connectivity. The conventional paradigm for surfing mobile Web documents is …

We consider the class of mobile computing applications with periodically connected clients.
These clients wish to share data; however, due to the expense of mobile communication …