Optimising context data dissemination and storage in distributed pervasive computing systems

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 218-238

  Roussaki, Ioanna ^a   Strimpakou, Maria ^a   Pils, Carsten ^b   Kalatzis, Nikos ^a   Liampotis, Nicolas ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b South East Technological University   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Context Distributed Database Management System; Context management query languages; Context replication; Mobile physical object handling; Selective context data dissemination

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

CONTEXT DATA; CONTEXT MANAGEMENT; CONTEXT REPLICATION; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE; PHYSICAL OBJECTS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77950188015     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2009.07.015     Document Type: Article

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