In contrast to a large body of theoretical work on computer systems, distributed systems are not idealised constructions, unconstrained by physical world limitations. They must be...
Securing data is becoming a crucial need for most internet-based applications. Whereas the problem of data confidentiality has been widely investigated, the problem of how to ens...
Yunhua Koglin, Giovanni Mella, Elisa Bertino, Elen...
Distributed Data Collector (DDC) is a framework to ease and automate repetitive executions of console applications (probes) over a set of LAN networked Windows personal computers....
We present an algorithm by which nodes arranged in a tree, with each node initially knowing only its parent and children, can construct a fault-tolerant communication structure (a...
The globalization of businesses and the cooperation between organizations have brought on an ever increased need for providing support for distributed collaborations. In this pape...