—The FRIENDS system developed at LAAS-CNRS is a metalevel architecture providing libraries of metaobjects for fault tolerance, secure communication, and group-based distributed a...
Chaotic systems have many interesting features such as sensitivity on initial condition and system parameter, ergodicity and mixing properties. In this paper, we exploit these int...
We present a calculus for tracking equality relationships between values through pairs of bytecode programs. The calculus may serve as a certification mechanism for noninterferenc...
A fair contract signing protocol allows two potentially mistrusted parities to exchange their commitments (i.e., digital signatures) to an agreed contract over the Internet in a f...
In distributed systems users need the ability to share sensitive content with multiple other recipients based on their ability to satisfy arbitrary policies. One such system is el...