In a reputation-based trust-management system, agents maintain information about the past behaviour of other agents. This information is used to guide future trust-based decisions...
To achieve highly accurate branch prediction, it is necessary not only to allocate more resources to branch prediction hardware but also to improve the understanding of branch exe...
Current scientific workflow models require datasets to be transferred from their source to the hosts where they can be processed. This seriously impedes data-intensive application...
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...
Access control for relational databases is a well researched area. An SQL query is allowed or denied access to database according to the specified access control policy. On the oth...