In hierarchical distributed systems, shared data access can be controlled by assigning user groups single cryptographic keys that allow high level users derive low level keys, but...
A common theme in information security is protection of trusted software components against unauthorized access by untrusted users. In the context of distributed object technologi...
A swap instruction, which exchanges a value in memory with a value of a register, is available on many architectures. The primary application of a swap instruction has been for pro...
Apan Qasem, David B. Whalley, Xin Yuan, Robert van...
Device Locks are mechanisms used in distributed environments to facilitate mutual exclusion of shared resources. They can further be used to maintain coherence of data that is cac...
Kenneth W. Preslan, Steven R. Soltis, Christopher ...
Already in the early 14th century, the philosopher William of Ockham created the philosophical principle known as Ockham’s Razor, which can be translated from Latin as ”entiti...