Abstract. In 1982, Bennett and Brassard suggested a new way to provide privacy in long distance communications with security based on the correctness of the basic principles of qua...
Easy-to-use audio/video authoring tools play a crucial role in moving multimedia software from research curiosity to mainstream applications. However, research in multimedia author...
Object-based programming is becoming more and more popular and is currently conquering the world of distributed programming models. In object-based systems access control is often...
We consider the problem of scheduling tasks with unpredictable service times on distinct processing nodes so as to meet a real-time deadline, given that all communication among no...
Modern virtual machines, such as Java and Inferno, are emerging as network computing s. While these virtual machines provide higher-level abstractions and more sophisticated servi...