“Faster, Better, Cheaper” (FBC) was a systems development methodology used by NASA in the 1990s. While usually a deprecated practice, we find that, with certain caveats, it is...
As wide-area open networks like the Internet and intranets grow larger, mobile agent technology is attracting more attention. Mobile agents are units of software that can deal wit...
A distributed decision support system involving multiple clinical centres is crucial to the diagnosis of rare diseases. Although sharing of valid diagnosed cases can facilitate la...
We have proposed in the past three separate methodologies for secure software development. We have found that they have many common and complementary aspects and we proposed a com...
This paper presents a model of hierarchical organization of Certification Authorities which can be applied to any open system network. In order to study the feasibility of the pro...