The focus of access control in client/server environments is on protecting sensitive server resources by determining whether or not a client is authorized to access those resource...
In this paper we consider the functionality that a rights expression language (REL) should provide within a digital rights management (DRM) environment. We begin by noting the dea...
Pramod A. Jamkhedkar, Gregory L. Heileman, Iv&aacu...
The use of good random numbers is essential to the integrity of many mission-critical systems. However, when such systems are replicated for Byzantine fault tolerance, a serious i...
To share resources in open distributed systems we have developed autonomous mobile programs, which periodically use a cost model to decide where to execute in a network. In additi...
Information about online presence allows participants of instant messaging (IM) systems to determine whether their prospective communication partners will be able to answer their ...
Karsten Loesing, Markus Dorsch, Martin Grote, Knut...