centralized abstractions. The metaphor of a community of independent objects communicating by passing messages is misleading and dangerous when thinking in terms of a distributed s...
Software agents have become very popular in the last six or so years. They have been used successfully to filter information, match people with similar interests and automate repe...
To facilitate the sharing of information using modern communication networks, users must be able to decide on a privacy policy--what information to conceal, what to reveal, and to...
Onion Routing is an infrastructure for private communication over a public network. It provides anonymous connections that are strongly resistant to both eavesdropping and tra c a...
David M. Goldschlag, Michael G. Reed, Paul F. Syve...
stractions underlying distributed computing. We attempted to keep our preaims at an abstract and general level. In this column, we make those claims more concrete. More precisely, ...