The synchronous language Esterel is an established language for developing reactive systems. It gives an abstract, well-defined and executable description of the application, and c...
Abstract. The proliferation of group-centric computing and communication motivates the need for mechanisms to provide group access control. Group access control includes mechanisms...
Currently, there are two main basic approaches to data integration: Global-as-View (GaV) and Local-as-View (LaV). However, both GaV and LaV have their limitations. In a GaV approa...
Increasingly scientific discoveries are driven by analyses of massively distributed bulk data. This has led to the proliferation of high-end mass storage systems, storage area clu...
Sensor networks are poised for increasingly wider uses in many military and civil applications. We present a bootstrapping protocol for a class of sensor networks in which the net...