The growing diffusion of portable devices enables users to benefit from anytime and anywhere impromptu collaboration. Appropriate policy models that take into account the dynamici...
Pervasive computing applications typically involve cooperation among a number of entities spanning multiple organizations. Any security breach in any single entity can have very fa...
Trust and its role in e-commerce is a major topic for researchers, clients, and service providers alike. However, questions of origin and practical usage of trust in e-commerce ar...
We describe a model for real-time communication exchange in public forums, such as newsgroups and chatrooms, and use this model to develop an efficient algorithm which identifies...
Hung-Ching Chen, Mark K. Goldberg, Malik Magdon-Is...
The main goal of this PhD thesis is to propose and implement a methodology for the construction of programs based on the SCOOP model, and for modular reasoning about their correct...