AKIRA is an open source framework designed for parallel, asynchronous and distributed computation, on the basis of some general architectural principles which are inspired by modu...
In conventional security systems, protected resources such as documents, hardware devices and software applications follow an On/Off access policy. On, allows to grant access and ...
Abstract. When dealing with distributed systems, one of the most important problems that has to be addressed is concurrency. Distributed systems are inherently concurrent, distribu...
—The paper first discusses motivations why taking into account location information in authentication and access control is important. The paper then surveys current approaches t...
This paper focuses on flow control in high-speed networks. Each node in the networks handles its local traffic flow only on the basis of the information it knows, but it is pre...