Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
Streaming applications over Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems have gained an enormous popularity. Success always implies increased concerns about security, protection, privacy and all the...
Gabriela Gheorghe, Renato Lo Cigno, Alberto Montre...
Computational puzzles are mildly difficult computational problems that require resources (processor cycles, memory, or both) to solve. Puzzles have found a variety of uses in secu...
Liqun Chen, Paul Morrissey, Nigel P. Smart, Bogdan...
The increasing centralization of networked services places user data at considerable risk. For example, many users store email on remote servers rather than on their local disk. D...
Adam J. Aviv, Michael E. Locasto, Shaya Potter, An...
Volunteer Computing is becoming a new paradigm not only for the Computational Grid, but also for institutions using production-level Data Grids because of the enormous storage pot...
Jesus Luna, Michail Flouris, Manolis Marazakis, An...