In federated and pervasive networks, trust management has become a cornerstone for information security and privacy. Although people have recognized the importance of privacy and ...
ions, and (c) the seductive reality of the computer must not be allowed to supplant construction of models. The dominant theory of learning today is called constructivism. This the...
Abstract. A Sentient Computing environment is one in which the system is able to perceive the state of the physical world and use this information to customise its behaviour. Mobil...
Abstract. Global computing applications co-ordinate distributed computations across widely-dispersed hosts. Such systems present formidable design and implementation challenges to ...
Linda Brodo, Pierpaolo Degano, Stephen Gilmore, Ja...
Conventional performance evaluation mechanisms focus on dedicated distributed systems. Grid computing infrastructure, on another hand, is a shared collaborative environment constr...