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...
One of the most serious security threats in the Internet are Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS) attacks, due to the significant service disruption they can create and the di...
1 Electronic fair-exchange protocols have received significant attention from the research community in the recent past. In loose terms, the fair exchange problem is defined as at...
We present a distributed algorithm for assembling a proof that a request satisfies an access-control policy expressed in a formal logic, in the tradition of Lampson et al. [16]. ...
In this paper we introduce Challenger, a multiagent system that performs completely distributed resource allocation. Challenger consists of agents which individually manage local ...