—The IEC61499 standard is the first step towards the development of the next generation agile manufacturing systems where distribution, interoperability and re-configuration are ...
Digital fountains have changed the standard transmission paradigm. A digital fountain can encode and transmit an unlimited number of data packets until every user gets enough info...
Pasquale Cataldi, Miquel Pedros Shatarski, Marco G...
We introduce the notion of sanitizable signatures that offer many attractive security features for certain current and emerging applications. A sanitizable signature allows author...
Giuseppe Ateniese, Daniel H. Chou, Breno de Medeir...
XPath [16] was introduced by the W3C as a standard language for specifying node selection, matching conditions, and for computing values from an XML document. XPath is now used in...
Agents are an emerging technology that grants programmers a new way to exploit distributed resources. Roles are a powerful concept that can be used to model agent interactions, all...