The paper describes an experimental system in which we linked together a number of computers over the Internet to form a multi-processor computer system. The arrangeme nt uses Jav...
Abstract-- Service descriptions based on type hiernd abstract service states ruling the availability of operations permit more secure service combinations in distributed systems de...
Despite numerous frameworks and models proposed in the literature, Information Systems (IS) assessment still remains elusive. Above all, there is little agreement on the contribut...
We provide a survey on security features and threats to existing Instant Messaging (IM) networks and discuss how currently available systems fail to provide adequate security in l...
—Mechanisms for Web services Discovery proposed so far have assumed a centralized registry that collects information about all the Web services available at any given time. Centr...
Massimo Paolucci, Katia P. Sycara, Takuya Nishimur...