: In many of today's application programs, security functionality is inseparably intertwined with the actual mission-purpose logic. As a result, the trusted code base is unnec...
An object database management system (OODBMS) has been often criticized for its alleged insufficient scalability for a large-scale production system. We investigated the scalabili...
In this paper we introduce Social VPNs, a novel system architecture which leverages existing social networking infrastructures to enable ad-hoc VPNs which are self-configuring, s...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, Pierre S...
In a component-based software system the components are specified, designed and implemented with the intention to be reused, and are assembled in various contexts in order to pro...
Antonio Bucchiarone, Andrea Polini, Patrizio Pelli...
This paper describes how Quality of Service (QoS) enabled Overlay Multicast architectures using Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks can enhance the experience of end-users in Networked Vi...