The use of access predictors to improve storage device performance has been investigated for both improving access times, as well as a means of reducing energy consumed by the dis...
Jeffrey P. Rybczynski, Darrell D. E. Long, Ahmed A...
The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a key issue in multiagent systems. Due to its universality, voting has a central role among preference aggregation mechanisms. Votin...
Object-based programming is becoming more and more popular and is currently conquering the world of distributed programming models. In object-based systems access control is often...
We describe a new architecture for Byzantine fault tolerant state machine replication that separates agreement that orders requests from execution that processes requests. This se...
Trust negotiation is an approach to establishing trust between strangers through the bilateral, iterative disclosure of digital credentials. Under automated trust negotiation, acc...