Management has become a key concern for the success of multicast deployment in the Internet. One of the most important management tasks for multicast is to verify the availability...
In this paper we suggest the requirements for an open platform designed for the description, distribution and analysis of genetic polymorphism data. This platform is discussed in ...
Good public-key infrastructures (PKIs) are essential to make electronic commerce secure. Quite recently, certificate verification trees (CVTs) have been introduced as a tool for im...
With mobile computing and powerful laptops, databases with sensitive data can be physically retrieved by malicious users who can employ techniques that were not previously thought...
Increasingly, systems are composed from independently developed parts, and mechanisms that allow those parts to interact (connectors). In many situations, specialized forms of int...