It is now commonly accepted that security and dependability largely represent two different aspects of an overall meta-concept that reflects the trust that we put in a computer s...
The Internet offers remote access to many information systems to users independent of time and location. This paper describes an agent based approach to deal with issues that rise ...
—Transport of real-time voice traffic on the Internet is difficult due to packet loss and jitter. Packet loss is handled primarily through a variety of different forward error ...
Public administrations show a strong interest in digital signature technology as a mean for secure and authenticated document exchange, hoping it will help reducing paper-based tr...
Bipolar synchronization systems (BP-systems) constitute a class of coloured Petri nets, well suited for modelling the control flow of discrete dynamical systems. Every BP-system ha...