The development of wireless and web technologies has allowed the mobile users to request
various kinds of services by mobile devices at anytime and anywhere. Helping the users …

Users rely increasingly on Location‐Based Services (LBS) and automated navigation/guidance
systems nowadays. However, while such services are easily implemented in outdoor …

The topic on recommendation systems for mobile users has attracted a lot of attentions in
recent years. However, most of the existing recommendation techniques were developed …

Based on the standardized IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) protocol,
this paper proposes a new backoff mechanism, called Smart Exponential‐Threshold‐Linear (…

Parallel and distributed computing techniques have attracted extensive attentions on the ability
to manage and compute the significant amount of data in the past decades. The difficulty …

The goal of data mining is to discover hidden useful information in large databases. Mining
frequent patterns from transaction databases is an important problem in data mining. As the …

… However, to achieve identical completion times and reduce the idle time of each computing
node, Kawuu W. Lin et al. proposed four dispatch methods based on the CARM algorithm: (a…

Energy saving in sensor networks has received a great deal of research attention in recent
years due to its wide applications. One important research issue is energy efficient object …

In recent years, knowledge discovery in databases provides a powerful capability to discover
meaningful and useful information. For numerous real-life applications, frequent pattern …

In recent years, a number of studies have been done on object tracking sensor networks (OTSNs)
due to the wide applications. One important research issue in OTSNs is the energy …