E-commerce is a rapidly expanding sector all over the world. While this is apparently good news to the world's consumers and business companies, it is creating big challenges...
Current Web services standards enable publishing service descriptions and finding services by matching requested and published descriptions based on syntactic criteria such as me...
As more sensitive data is captured in electronic form, security becomes more and more important. Data encryption is the main technique for achieving security. While in the past en...
Adopting a programming-language perspective, we study the problem of implementing authentication in a distributed system. We define a process calculus with constructs for authent...
Recent results indicate scalability problems for flat ad hoc networks. To address the issue of scalability, self-organizing hierarchical ad hoc architectures are being investigat...