Reflective middleware provides an effective way to support adaptation in distributed systems. However, as distributed systems become increasingly complex, certain drawbacks of the...
Bholanathsingh Surajbali, Geoff Coulson, Phil Gree...
As wide-area open networks like the Internet and intranets grow larger, mobile agent technology is attracting more attention. Mobile agents are units of software that can deal wit...
In this paper, we study the maintenance of role-based access control (RBAC) models in database environments using transitive closure relations. In particular, the algorithms that ...
We show that the minimum distance of a linear code is not approximable to within any constant factor in random polynomial time (RP), unless nondeterministic polynomial time (NP) eq...
Accurate denition of similarity measure is a key component
in image registration. Most commonly used intensitybased
similarity measures rely on the assumptions of independence
...