Sophisticated middlebox services–such as network monitoring and intrusion detection, DDoS mitigation, worm scanning, XML parsing and protocol transformation–are becoming incre...
Abstract. Agent-oriented system development aims to simplify the conn of complex systems by introducing a natural abstraction layer on top of the object-oriented paradigm composed ...
Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Daniel Moldt, Win...
—This paper presents a Secure Code Update (SCU) system for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). This solution achieves different security goals. First, through a dedicated authentica...
Nicola Bui, Osman Ugus, Moreno Dissegna, Michele R...
Process control systems (PCSs) are instrumental to the safe, reliable and efficient operation of many critical infrastructure components. However, PCSs increasingly employ commodit...
Robert K. Cunningham, Steven Cheung, Martin W. Fon...
We present a policy-based architecture STEPS for lifecycle management (LCM) in a mass scale distributed file system. The STEPS architecture is designed in the context of IBM’s ...
Akshat Verma, David Pease, Upendra Sharma, Marc Ka...