In peer-to-peer storage systems, peers can freely join and leave the system at any time. Ensuring high data availability in such an environment is a challenging task. In this paper...
We believe that communication in multi-agent system has two major meanings. One of them is to transmit one agent's observed information to the other. The other meaning is to ...
The decentralized process of configuring enterprise applications is complex and error-prone, involving multiple participants/roles and numerous configuration changes across multipl...
Jules White, Douglas C. Schmidt, Krzysztof Czarnec...
Abstract. Trust-management systems address the authorization problem in distributed systems. They offer several advantages over other approaches, such as support for delegation and...
Hao Wang, Somesh Jha, Thomas W. Reps, Stefan Schwo...
Software component technology facilitates the costeffective development of specialized applications. Nevertheless, due to the high number of principals involved in a component-str...