Napster pioneered the idea of peer-to-peer file sharing, and supported it with a centralized file search facility. Subsequent P2P systems like Gnutella adopted decentralized sea...
Yatin Chawathe, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Lee Breslau, Nic...
Authorization systems today are increasingly complex. They span domains of administration, rely on many different authentication sources, and manage permissions that can be as com...
Markus Lorch, Seth Proctor, Rebekah Lepro, Dennis ...
We define a Mobile Database Community (MDBC) as a dynamic collection of autonomous mobile databases in which each database user can access databases in the community through a wir...
This paper presents a requirements engineering framework based on the notions of Actor, Goal, and Intentional Dependency, and applies it to a case study in the field of Informatio...
We describe a new method for protecting the anonymity of message receivers in an untrusted network. Surprisingly, existing methods fail to provide the required level of anonymity ...