While the trust paradigm is essential to broadly extend the communication between the environment’s actors, the evaluation of trust becomes a challenge when confronted with init...
—Emerging applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) require real-time quality of service (QoS) guarantees to be provided by the network. However, designing real-time schedu...
Access control has been studied for sometime, and there are a number of theories and techniques for handling access control for single or centralised systems; however, unique and ...
Daisy Daiqin He, Michael Compton, Kerry Taylor, Ji...
Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...
Abstract. Fine-grained lock protocols should allow for highly concurrent transaction processing on XML document trees, which is addressed by the taDOM lock protocol family enabling...