Publish-subscribe (pub-sub) systems are useful for many applications, including pervasive environments. In the latter context, however, great care must be taken to preserve the pr...
Secrecy properties can be guaranteed through a combination of static and dynamic checks. The static checks may include the application of special type systems with notions of secr...
Emerging trust and risk management systems provide a framework for principals to determine whether they will exchange resources, without requiring a complete definition of their ...
Distributed computation systems have become an important tool for scientific simulation, and a similarly distributed replica management system may be employed to increase the loc...
Extensible systems, such as Java or the SPIN extensible operating system, allow for units of code, or extensions, to be added to a running system in almost arbitrary fashion. Exte...