Cooperative caching is an important technique to support efficient data dissemination and sharing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). In order to ensure valid data access, the cach...
: Utility companies worldwide are facing a multitude of new challenges, which can not be met with the historically grown, monolithic IT systems currently in use. Service oriented a...
A distributed dynamic system is a fully distributed system subject to a continual arrival/departure of the entities defining the system. Another characterizing dimension of these ...
In this paper we consider the problem of maximising utility in linked market-driven distributed and Grid systems. In such systems, users submit jobs through brokers who can virtua...
We present a discretionary access control framework that can be used to control a principal’s ability to link information from two or more audit records and compromise a user’...