A significant deterrent to the ability to connect in a spontaneous manner in cross-enterprise collaborative applications is the difficulty in users from different domains being ab...
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET) have several characteristics that distinguish them from other ad hoc networks. Among those is the rapid change in topology due to traffic jams, w...
Maen M. Artimy, William Robertson, William J. Phil...
Open-source software development projects are almost always collaborative and distributed. Despite the difficulties imposed by distance, these projects have managed to produce lar...
Given two or more parties possessing large, confidential datasets, we consider the problem of securely computing the kth -ranked element of the union of the datasets, e.g. the med...
When a client submits a set of XPath queries to a XML database on a network, the set of answer sets sent back by the database may include redundancy in two ways: some elements may...