In this paper, we examine the special requirements of lifecycle management for entities in the context of an entity management system for the semantic web. We study the requirement...
Abstract. This paper describes e cient protocols for multi-party computations that are information-theoretically secure against passive attacks. The results presented here apply to...
Previous work has found that (a) when software is developed collaboratively, concurrent accesses to related pieces of code are made, and (b) when these accesses are coordinated asy...
In this paper, we introduce a modified version of the IEEE 802.11a protocol and evaluate its performance. The new protocol is a combination of the standard Medium Access Control (...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a pervasive computing framework, named Physicalnet. Essentially, Physicalnet is a generic paradigm for managing and programmi...
Pascal Vicaire, Zhiheng Xie, Enamul Hoque, John A....