Standards for distribution middleware sometimes impose restrictions and often allow the implementations to decide on aspects that are fundamental to the correct and efficient behav...
DRM has been widely promoted as a means to enforce copyright. In many previous papers, it has been argued that DRM gives too much power to rights holders and actually goes beyond ...
In order to regulate different circumstances over an extensive period of time, norms in institutions are stated in a vague and biguous manner, thereby abstracting from concrete as...
Behavioral interface specification languages, such as Java Modeling Language (JML), can be used to specify the behavior of program modules. We have developed a behavioral interfac...
Peer-to-peer networks consist of thousands or millions of nodes that might join and leave arbitrarily. The evaluation of new protocols in real environments is many times practical...
Vassilios Chrissikopoulos, George Papaloukopoulos,...