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HPDC
2010
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Mendel: efficiently verifying the lineage of data modified in multiple trust domains
Data is routinely created, disseminated, and processed in distributed systems that span multiple administrative domains. To maintain accountability while the data is transformed b...
Ashish Gehani, Minyoung Kim
IPPS
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
On the need for query-centric unstructured peer-to-peer overlays
—Hybrid P2P systems rely on the assumption that sufficient objects exist nearby in order to make the unstructured search component efficient. This availability depends on the o...
William Acosta, Surendar Chandra
DRM
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Fairer usage contracts for DRM
DRM has been widely promoted as a means to enforce copyright. In many previous papers, it has been argued that DRM gives too much power to rights holders and actually goes beyond ...
Alapan Arnab, Andrew Hutchison
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Evolving social rationality for MAS using "tags"
Endowing agents with “social rationality” [10, 12, 11] can aid overall efficiency in tasks where cooperation is beneficial to system level performance. However it is difficult...
David Hales, Bruce Edmonds
CONCUR
1998
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Algebraic Techniques for Timed Systems
Performance evaluation is a central issue in the design of complex real-time systems. In this work, we propose an extension of socalled "Max-Plus" algebraic techniques to...
Albert Benveniste, Claude Jard, Stephane Gaubert