—Conventional verification systems, such as those controlling access to a secure room, do not usually require the user to reauthenticate himself for continued access to the prote...
The next generation of software systems will be highly distributed, component-based and service-oriented. They will need to operate in unattended mode and possibly in hostile envi...
Conventional e-mail systems are prone to problems that impact their scalability and dependability. E-mail systems operate following a "push-based" approach: the sender s...
Edson Kageyama, Carlos Maziero, Altair Olivo Santi...
Proving ownership rights on outsourced relational databases is a crucial issue in today internet-based application environments and in many content distribution applications. In th...
—The use of vital signs as a biometric is a potentially viable approach in a variety of application scenarios such as security and personalized health care. In this paper, a nove...