Novel forms of collaboration increasingly distribute control among e-workers, thereby allowing agile and autonomous collaboration. However, this requires a novel blend of infrastr...
Daniel Schall, Christoph Dorn, Schahram Dustdar, I...
— We propose an Efficient Reliable Data Collection (eRDC) algorithm. The eRDC is designed for energy-constraint wireless sensor networks (WSN) to balance reliability and energy c...
Ren Ping Liu, John Zic, Iain B. Collings, Alex Y. ...
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...
— Online service provision is becoming increasingly decentralized as system designers pursue the benefits gained from utilizing nodes at the periphery of the network. However, d...
—Reputation systems provide a promising way for building trust through social control in collaborative communities by harnessing the community knowledge in the form of feedback. ...