The goal of autonomic computing is to create computing systems capable of managing themselves to a far greater extent than they do today. This paper presents Unity, a decentralize...
Gerald Tesauro, David M. Chess, William E. Walsh, ...
Half the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas by 2020. The high human density and changes in peoples’ consumption habits result in an everincreasing amount of...
Inbal Reif, Florian Alt, Juan David Hincapié...
It has long been observed that database management systems focus on traditional business applications, and that few people use a database management system outside their workplace...
Hector Gonzalez, Alon Y. Halevy, Christian S. Jens...
Attributes define, classify, or annotate the datum to which they are assigned. However, traditional attribute architectures and cryptosystems are ill-equipped to provide security ...
Matthew Pirretti, Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDanie...
The methods and technologies providing advantages in controlling and managing intellectual property rights are currently associated under the term Digital Rights Management (DRM)....