Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology can be naturally integrated with mobile agent technology in Internet applications, taking advantage of the autonomy, mobility, and efficiency of mobi...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks use the fundamental assumption that the nodes in the network will cooperate and will not cheat. In the absence of any common goals shared by the nodes ...
A significant number of mobile payment systems have been proposed in recent years, most of them based on a scenario where all the entities are directly connected one to another (fo...
Implementing an electronic payment system involves striking a balance between usability and security. Systems that allow payments to be completed with little effort on the part of...
—The advent of distributed and ad-hoc-connected systems such as in Ambient Intelligence applications confronts developers with the question on how to specify QoS- and security po...