Different from multi-user database management systems, CSCW system must support group awareness explicitly, namely that participants should perceive the presence of each other dur...
Processes are certainly a key element in software management. Defining and using processes is believed to be an important factor towards quality. Our paper describes a general pro...
Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite, Soeli T. Fiori...
This paper presents an approach to maintaining consistency of object versions in multiversion database systems. In this approach a multiversion database is considered to be a set ...
In the context of ambient networks, this article describes a cryptographic protocol called Common History Extraction (CHE) protocol implementing a trust management framework. All t...
Samuel Galice, Marine Minier, John Mullins, St&eac...
We argue that designing a system that “guarantees” the privacy of its information may not be enough. One must also consider the price for providing that protection: For exampl...