-- Peer-to-peer systems and applications are distributed systems without any centralized control. P2P systems form the basis of several applications, such as file sharing systems a...
- The emergence of high-speed networks, Grid Computing, Service-Oriented Architectures, and an ever increasing ambient connection to mobile Internet has enabled an underpinning inf...
Language run-time systems are routinely used to host potentially buggy or malicious codelets — software modules, agents, applets, etc. — in a secure environment. A number of t...
Task delegation presents one of the business process security leitmotifs. It defines a mechanism that bridges the gap between both workflow and access control systems. There are tw...
An M/MMGI/1/K queuing model is developed for the analysis of IEEE 802.11 DCF using RTS/CTS. Results are based on arbitrary contention conditions, namely, collision probabilities, ...