This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...
Many emerging applications (e.g., teleconference, real-time information services, pay per view, distributed interactive simulation, and collaborative work) are based upon a group ...
Database applications and technologies are of central importance in many information systems a person may encounter. To obtain services, the end-users are required a smart card (pl...
We have implemented an identity provider (IdP), which is defined by the Liberty Alliance on a mobile phone. We propose an authentication method, which uses this personal IdP as a ...
This paper discusses the technical and policy issues that West Virginia Network (WVNET) encountered when it expanded its statewide Internet dialup service through an outsourcing p...