Internet worms have repeatedly revealed the susceptibility of network hosts to malicious intrusions. Recent studies have proposed to employ the underlying principles of worm propa...
In today’s world, stream processing systems have become important, as applications like media broadcasting, sensor network monitoring and on-line data analysis increasingly rely...
URL, or layer-5, switches can be used to implement locally and globally distributed web sites. URL switches must be able to exploit knowledge of server load and content (e.g., of ...
Due to the requirements of open service markets, the structure of networks and application systems is changing. To handle the evolving complex distributed systems, new concepts for...
Coordination and access control are related issues in open distributed agent systems, being both concerned with governing interaction between agents and resources. In particular, w...
Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli