Reluctance of data owners to share their possibly confidential or proprietary data with others who own related databases is a serious impediment to conducting a mutually beneficia...
Ashish P. Sanil, Alan F. Karr, Xiaodong Lin, Jerom...
To carry out work assignments, small groups distributed within a larger enterprise often need to share documents among themselves while shielding those documents from others'...
Sergej Zerr, Elena Demidova, Daniel Olmedilla, Wol...
Some "non-' or "extra-functional" features, such as reliability, security, and tracing, defy modularization mechanisms in programming languages. This makes suc...
Eric Wohlstadter, Stoney Jackson, Premkumar T. Dev...
—Ensuring spontaneous ad hoc interoperation in decentralized ubiquitous computing environments is challenging, because of heterogeneous resources and divergent policies. Centrali...
Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Peter L. Reiher, Leonard ...
—Large-scale agent-based systems are required to self-optimize towards multiple, potentially conflicting, policies of varying spatial and temporal scope. As a result, not all ag...