This paper discusses how to building high available storage systems on top of peer-to-peer infrastructure. We first demonstrate that traditional definitions of availability are not...
Shuming Shi, Guangwen Yang, Jin Yu, Yongwei Wu, Di...
The Weil and Tate pairings have been used recently to build new schemes in cryptography. It is known that the Weil pairing takes longer than twice the running time of the Tate pair...
This article builds on insights into how humans cope with emotion to guide the design of virtual humans. Although coping is increasingly viewed in the psychological literature as ...
Software agents are one of the building blocks of ambient intelligence and pervasive computing. Adaptation to changes in the execution context is necessary in order to provide cont...
The increasing software complexity of wireless devices and wireless data service provisioning motivates a wireless terminal management challenge. The systems management solution fo...