Mutual information is widely used, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of categorical random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliabilit...
Recently, the Network-Attached Secure Disk (NASD) model has become a more widely used technique for constructing large-scale storage systems. However, the security system proposed...
Abstract. Currently, many kinds of information agents for di erent purposes exist. However, agents from di erent systems are still unable to cooperate, even if they accurately foll...
Although they have potential, to date location-based information systems have not radically improved the way we interact with our surroundings. To study related issues, we develop...
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Frankowski, Ken Reily, Kurt...
Adaptation to changing environmental conditions is a major challenge for most distributed applications. The service-oriented programming paradigm leads to an increasing number of ...