This paper introduces a mechanism for establishing policies for electronic commerce in a uni ed and secure manner. A commercial policy can be viewed as the embodiment of a contrac...
— Active Networks, being programmable, promise greater flexibility than current networks. Programmability, however, may introduce safety and security risks. This paper describes...
Michael W. Hicks, Angelos D. Keromytis, Jonathan M...
Charging of services in a distributed system will become more and more important for systems which are utilized commercially. Such an important distributed system exists in form o...
Burkhard Stiller, Jan Gerke, Placi Flury, Peter Re...
— This paper proposes a computational method of contact forces working between multibody system and environment in forward dynamics based on both the microbody-deformation model ...
Abstract. Redundancy has been utilized to achieve fault tolerant computation and to achieve reliable communication in networks of processors. These techniques can only be extended ...