— Trust management, broadly intended as the ability to maintain belief relationship among entities, is recognized as a fundamental security challenge for autonomous and selforgan...
This paper explores the firewall security and performance relationship for distributed systems. Experiments are conducted to set firewall security into seven different levels and ...
a useful abstract representation is fundamental to solving many difficult problems in software engineering. In order to better understand how representations are actually used in ...
In a multi-agent system, agents must decide what to do and by what order. Autonomy is a key notion in such a system, since it is mainly the autonomy of the agents that makes the en...
This paper proposes LTNC, a new recoding algorithm to build low complexity network codes. At the core of LTNC is a decentralized version of LT codes that allows the use of fast be...