The Grid is an emerging platform to support on-demand "virtual organisations" for coordinated resource sharing and problem solving on a global scale. The application thr...
The current set of social networking platforms, e.g. Facebook and MySpace, has created a new class of Internet applications called social software. These systems focus on leveragi...
E. Michael Maximilien, Tyrone Grandison, Kun Liu, ...
The tuple space coordination model is one of the most interesting coordination models for open distributed systems due to its space and time decoupling and its synchronization pow...
A group key agreement protocol (GKA) allows a set of players to establish a shared secret key which can be used to secure a subsequent communication. Several efficient constantrou...
We build an efficient and reliable data transport protocol on top of the Short Message Service (SMS). We conduct a series of experiments to characterize SMS behaviour under bursty...