Abstract. This paper presents a method to generate unique and nevertheless highly random pseudonyms in a distributed environment. More precisely, each user can now generate his pse...
Abstract. CiteSeer began as the first search engine for scientific literature to incorporate Autonomous Citation Indexing, and has since grown to be a well-used, open archive for...
The recent emergence of handheld devices and wireless networks has implied an exponential increase of terminals users. So, today, service providers have to propose new application...
With the recent advances in communications technologies and decentralization of work practices, there has been an increase in distributed, remote, computerized work environments. I...
1 Today many safety-critical applications are based on distributed systems where several computing nodes exchange information via suitable network interconnections. An example of t...