Most people consider frequent software updates a nuisance. However, we show how this common phenomenon can be turned into a feature that protects against software piracy. We defin...
Abstract. This paper describes an architecture for modeling cooperating systems of communicating agents. The authors’ goal is not that of providing a framework to implement multi...
Roberto A. Flores, Robert C. Kremer, Douglas H. No...
In this article, we describe a new architecture providing the access control service in both ATM and IPover-ATM networks. This architecture is based on agents distributed in netwo...
This work introduces a new approach to code safety. We present Naccio, a system architecture that allows a large class of safety policies to be expressed in a general and platform...
: Security is a very important aspect of distributed computing systems, especially in distributed information environments involving widearea networks, such as internets. In this p...