With the emergence of the Internet, collaborative computing has become more feasible than ever. Organizations can share valuable information among each other. However, certain user...
Coordination and access control are related issues in open distributed agent systems, being both concerned with governing interaction between agents and resources. In particular, w...
Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
Abstract. Component software means reuse and separate marketing of pre-manufactured binary components. This requires components from different vendors to be composed very late, pos...
Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow users to learn data items stored at a server which is not fully trusted, without disclosing to the server the particular data e...
Ning Shang, Gabriel Ghinita, Yongbin Zhou, Elisa B...
Many industrial applications mandate the use of a timetriggered paradigm and consequently the use of off-line scheduling for reasons such as predictability, certification, cost, o...