Hovering information is a mobile computing paradigm where pieces of self-organizing
information are responsible to find their own storage on top of a dynamic set of mobile …

Content sharing via the Internet is a widespread means for people to foster their
relationships irrespective of physical distance. While network-based social applications are …

Content sharing using personal web pages, blogs, or online social networks is a common
means for people to maintain contact with their friends, colleagues, and acquaintances …

In current distributed systems, the notion of mobility is emerging in many forms and
applications. Increasingly many users are not tied to a fixed access point but instead use …

A location service tracks and locates objects. Such a service should provide efficient means
for updating and looking up an object's address, especially for those that are mobile …

The growing ubiquity and pervasiveness of sensors and smart devices, with the consequent
availability of a large amount of" local" and contextualized information, are giving rise to a …

In mobile environments, information systems are often accessed through wireless WANs.
Thus the users often have to cope with difficulties such as low bandwidth, high delay, and …

With the increasing popularity of mobile computing devices, the need to access information
in mobile environments has grown rapidly. Since the information has to be accessed over …

Miniaturization of computing devices, and advances in wireless communication and sensor
technology are some of the forces that are propagating computing from the stationary …

Applets, proxies and increasingly complex web applications point toward the Internet
becoming a globally distributed system. Currently these services are provided in an ad hoc …