The Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and its variant, Transport Layer Security (TLS), are used toward ensuring server security. In this paper, we characterize the cryptographic strength ...
Conflict resolution is a critical problem in distributed and collaborative multi-agent systems. Negotiation via argumentation (NVA), where agents provide explicit arguments or ju...
Efficiently protecting the privacy of multi-recipient emails is not as trivial as it seems. The approach proposed by S/MIME is to concatenate all ciphertexts. However, it suffers ...
ABSTRACT. Grids have become very complex. It makes the deployment and maintenance of systems a difficult task requiring lots of efforts from administrators. We believe that peer-t...
— The fields of autonomics and system configuration share a common goal in decreasing the cost of ownership of large fabrics. In this paper we present a combined vision in whic...