Fault-tolerant mobile computing systems have different requirements and restrictions, not taken into account by conventional distributed systems. This paper presents a coordinate...
—People enjoy the convenience of on-line services, but online environments may bring many risks. In this paper, we discuss how to prevent users’ passwords from being stolen by ...
Ming Lei, Yang Xiao, Susan V. Vrbsky, Chung-Chih L...
—We suggest a method of controlling the access to a secure database via quorum systems. A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which have a nonempty inter...
As the platform for wide-area distributed applications, the middleware architecture should support adaptability, scalability, mobility, reliability and security. However, current ...
The paper presents selected security aspects related to confidentiality, privacy, trust and authenticity issues of a distributed, agent-based computing. Particular attention has be...