We design an algorithm, called the fluid synchronization algorithm (FSA), for the job shop scheduling problem with the objective of minimizing the makespan. We round an optimal sol...
Online auctions of governmental bonds and CO2 certificates are challenged by high availability requirements in face of high peak loads around the auction deadline. Traditionally, t...
Guenther Starnberger, Lorenz Froihofer, Karl M. G&...
Many solutions for securing inter-provider handover proposed to date make use of the concept of security context transfer. However, none of these solutions addresses problems aris...
This paper introduces and solves a security problem of pervasive computing: how to define authorizations for offline interactions when trust relationships among entities do not ex...
So far, research on mobile ad hoc networks has been focused primarily on routing issues. Security, on the other hand, has been given a lower priority. This paper provides an overv...