The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and fast-moving discipline. As distributed systems are assembled from machines belonging to principals with div...
Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies (EPLT) [1] at the University of Washington maintains and supports a fleet of approximately 1,000 general-access student computin...
Today, database relations are widely used and distributed over the Internet. Since these data can be easily tampered with, it is critical to ensure the integrity of these data. In...
Researchers have made great strides in improving the fault tolerance of both centralized and replicated systems against arbitrary (Byzantine) faults. However, there are hard limit...
Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis, Scott Shenker, Jo...
In this paper we sketch a framework supporting contract enactment within the context of virtual organisation units that are dynamically created in order to achieve a common object...
Theodosis Dimitrakos, Ivan Djordjevic, Zoran Milos...