Open distributed systems such as service oriented architecture and cloud computing have emerged as promising platforms to deliver software as a service to users. However, for many...
Distributed object systems for partitionable systems present a challenge, in that there is a trade-off between availability and consistency. Changes in one partition are not visib...
Stefan Beyer, Alexander Sanchez, Francesc D. Mu&nt...
Preserving individual privacy when publishing data is a problem that is receiving increasing attention. According to the k-anonymity principle, each release of data must be such th...
Despite several research studies, the effective analysis of policy based systems remains a significant challenge. Policy analysis should at least (i) be expressive (ii) take accou...
Robert Craven, Jorge Lobo, Jiefei Ma, Alessandra R...
Recommendation systems can be attacked in various ways, and the ultimate attack form is reached with a sybil attack, where the attacker creates a potentially unlimited number of s...
Haifeng Yu, Chenwei Shi, Michael Kaminsky, Phillip...