Critical industrial applications or fault tolerant applications need for operating systems (OS) which guarantee a correct and safe behaviour in spite of the appearance of errors. ...
Securing data is more important than ever, yet cryptographic file systems still have not received wide use. One barrier to the adoption of cryptographic file systems is that the...
“Peer-to-peer” systems like Napster and Gnutella have recently become popular for sharing information. In this paper, we study the relevant issues and tradeoffs in designing a...
The implementation of computerized workflow systems to support the collection and dissemination of patient information has been an area of focus in healthcare for many years. This...
Distributed systems are becoming a popular way of implementing many embedded computing applications, automotive control being a common and important example. Such embedded systems...