Virtually every Internet user on the planet uses the powerful free tools offered by a handful of information service providers in many aspects of their personal and professional l...
—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...
— Security breaches and attacks are critical problems in today’s networking. A key-point is that the security of each host depends not only on the protection strategies it choo...
We consider a multiagent system whose task is to aid componentcentered design by collaborative designers in a supply chain. In the earlier work, collaborative design networks are ...
The problem of scalable and robust distributed data storage has recently attracted a lot of attention. A common approach in the area of peer-to-peer systems has been to use a dist...