Nowadays, numerous journals and conferences have published articles related to context-
aware systems, indicating many researchers' interest. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to …

Distributed Systems Page 1 DS 2006; Ch1 16-Jan-06 Timo Alanko, 2006 1 Distributed
Systems Spring 2006 Timo Alanko 16-Jan-06 2 Sources of material • Tanenbaum, van …

Distributed systems are by now commonplace, yet remain an often difficult area of research.
This is partly explained by the many facets of such systems and the inherent difficulty to …

Allows clients to bind to an object, ie install a proxy for that object (Note: binding a name to
an object is something completely different!) Provides the mechanisms for (remote) method …

Due to the increasing popularity of smartphones and their apps, mobile technologies have
been effectively changed the nature of travel. This study employed a data mining approach …

In this paper we demonstrate how to monitor a smartphone running Symbian operating
system and Windows Mobile in order to extract features for anomaly detection. These …

Smartphones are conquering the mobile phone market; they are not just phones; they also
act as media players, gaming consoles, personal calendars, storage, etc. They are portable …

Pervasive environments generate large quantities of data, originating from backend servers,
portable devices, and wireless mobile sensors. Pervasive sensing devices that monitor …

In this paper we report the results of our on-going activities regarding the use of smart
phones and mobile services in university classrooms. The purpose of these trials was to …

This paper introduces the Zurich Trusted Information Channel (ZTIC, for short), a cost-
efficient and easy-to-use approach to defend online services from man-in-the-middle and …