A fundamental problem that confronts decentralized reputation systems is the design of efficient, secure and incentive-compatible mechanisms to gather trust information despite m...
In this paper we describe a methodology that emerged during a healthcare project, which consisted among others in grouping information from heterogeneous and distributed informati...
Nicolae B. Szirbik, C. Pelletier, Thierry J. Chaus...
Secure, fault-tolerant distributed systems are difficult to build, to validate, and to operate. Conservative design for such systems dictates that their security and fault toleran...
Widely available and utilized Grid servers are vulnerable to a variety of threats from Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, overloading caused by flash crowds, and compromised client ...
Onur Demir, Michael R. Head, Kanad Ghose, Madhusud...
We advocate the use of agents to model a system that allows us to integrate and protect information stored in both mobile and fixed devices, while trying to preserve a consistent a...