Ubiquitous Computing is starting to be reality. The office and home environment of tomorrow has a much higher density of computing devices. Presumably a lot of these devices will be public in the sense that they can share their services with other services or users. Some of the devices will also be wireless and mobile. This dynamic service space will require a new information infrastructure for...

Cloud computing aims to make computational resources available to consumers as a third-party service, analogous to existing electricity grids or telecommunication networks. The resulting market of dedicated providers is intended to take advantage of economies of scale to provide effectively infinite levels of computing power to customers on demand, without the need for expensive hardware and so...

We believe continued growth in the volume of personal content, together with a shift to a multi-device personal computing environment, will inevitably lead to the development of Personal Content Databases (PCDBs). These databases will make it easier for users to find, use, and replicate large, heterogeneous repositories of personal content. In this paper, we describe the PCDB used to power Bloo...

A reconngurable computing development environment called Pilchard, employing a eld programmable gate array (FPGA) which plugs into a standard personal computer's (PC) 133 MHz synchronous dynamic RAM Dual In-line Memory Modules (DIMMs) slot is presented. Compared with a traditional PCI interfaced reconngurable computing board, the DIMM interface ooers higher bandwidth, a simpler interface and lo...

Universal Personal Computing (UPC) supports nomadic computing on the Internet by allowing mobile users to access their personalized computing resources anywhere on the Internet using any available terminal. Since UPC must deal with heterogeneous systems in a mobile environment, independence of computing platforms and support of portable objects are imperative, which leads to the choice of Java....

High Throughput Computing systems (HTC) enable otherwise idles cycles to be available to computations that involve many independent tasks. In a Distributed Computing environment, distributed ownership of computing resources is the major obstacle HTC has to overcome to take advantage of under-utilized systems in the network. This paper addresses HTC and how it fits in current parallel and distri...

changes, computing technology and applications have evolved quickly over the past decade. They now go beyond personal computing, facilitating collaboration and social interactions in general. As such, social computing, a new paradigm of computing and technology development, has become a central theme across a number of information and communication technology (ICT) fields. It has become a hot t...

Cloud computing is a delivery platform which promises a new way of accessing and storing personal as well as business information. It provides resources to its users through the Internet. But it also has a risk that is the involvement of a third party which makes it difficult to trust that user data is secure enough and will not be misused. To provide security, new technology called Fog computi...

Mobile devices such as smart mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other handheld computing devices have become very popular. The early findings about the use of mobile devices and mobile systems show that the mobile computing environment differs from the traditional desktop environment in significant ways. Several areas of computing, related to mobile devices, have surfaced ove...