Since networks and computing systems are vital components of today's life, it is of utmost importance to endow them with the capability to survive physical and logical faults...
This paper investigates the use of fuzzy logic mechanisms coming from the database community, namely graded inclusions, to model the information retrieval process. In this framewor...
Patrick Bosc, Vincent Claveau, Olivier Pivert, Lau...
Deeply embedded infrastructures are pervasive systems that have significant cyber and physical components, interacting with each other in complex ways. These interactions can vio...
Ubiquitous computing uses a variety of information for which access needs to be controlled. For instance, a person’s current location is a sensitive piece of information, which ...
Computational Grids are distributed systems that provide access to computational resources in a transparent fashion. Collecting and providing information about the status of the Gr...
Andrew W. Cooke, Alasdair J. G. Gray, Lisha Ma, We...