Database System Issues in Nomadic Computing

Summary: Nomadic computing forces power-aware cost models for query processing and resource trade-offs in DB design. Frequent disconnections, small screens/pen interfaces, and cross-organizational data movement raise transaction protocols and security concerns. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2721
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 6.6649602e-05
Overall Rank: 4,492 | 69.19%
DOI: 10.1145/170035.170092

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rafael Alonso (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.)
2. Henry F. Korth (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{alonso_sigmod93,
        title = {{Database System Issues in Nomadic Computing}},
        author = {Alonso, Rafael and Korth, Henry F.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.170092},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.170092},
        year = {1993}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
828	The Design of an Acquisitional Query Processor For Sensor Networks	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013769869
2,437	Energy Efficient Indexing On Air	1994	SIGMOD	8.580361e-05
12,865	Analyzing Energy Behavior of Spatial Access Methods for Memory-Resident Data	2001	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
64	Sagas	1987	SIGMOD	0.00038756588
3,397	Querying in highly mobile distributed environments	1992	VLDB	7.4470198e-05

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