Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications and services are very common in today’s computing. The popularity of the P2P paradigm prompts the need for specialized security services which ma...
Peer-to-Peer eCommerce communities are commonly perceived as an environment offering both opportunities and threats. One way to minimize threats in such an open community is to us...
Abstract. We study two closely related primitives: Broadcast Encryption and Key Predistribution Schemes (KPS). Broadcast Encryption allows a broadcaster to broadcast an encrypted m...
Agents collaborating on a set of tasks subject to temporal constraints must coordinate their activities to ensure that all of the temporal constraints are ultimately satisfied. S...
: In most commercial enterprises, information is scattered across a large number of (legacy) data stores. Moreover, it is nearly impossible to obtain funding to replace these data ...