In distributed work environments, where users are sharing and searching resources, ensuring an appropriate ranking at remote peers is a key problem. While this issue has been inves...
Desktop conferencing systems are now shifting from strict view-sharing towards relaxed "what-you-see-iswhat-I-see" interfaces, where distributed participants in a real t...
We explore the problem of secret-key distribution in unidirectional channels, those in which a sender transmits information blindly to a receiver. We consider two approaches: (1) ...
Parallel machines are typically space shared, or time shared such that only one application executes on a group of nodes at any given time. It is generally assumed that executing ...
: Computational grids that couple geographically distributed resources are becoming the de-facto computing platform for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and co...