Abstract. The development and deployment of middleware and applications in a grid environment spread over many institutions is a complex challenge. The management of the developmen...
In applications such as fraud and intrusion detection, it is of great interest to measure the evolving trends in the data. We consider the problem of quantifying changes between tw...
Abstract. Although algorithms for Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) have emerged as a key technique for distributed reasoning, their application faces significa...
In distributed component environment, a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) server manages all authorization policies of components in the same domains whereas the components are dist...
Clustering is an important characteristic of most sensor applications. In this paper we define COSMOS, the Cluster-based, heterOgeneouS MOdel for Sensor networks. The model assum...