The performance of a collaborative system depends on how two mandatory collaborative tasks, processing and transmission of user commands, are scheduled. We have developed multiple...
We argue that designing a system that “guarantees” the privacy of its information may not be enough. One must also consider the price for providing that protection: For exampl...
Conventional firewalls rely on topology restrictions and controlled network entry points to enforce traffic filtering. Furthermore, a firewall cannot filter traffic it does ...
Sotiris Ioannidis, Angelos D. Keromytis, Steven M....
Policies form an important part of management and can be an effective means of implementing self-adaptation in pervasive systems. Most policy-based systems focus on large-scale ne...
Kevin P. Twidle, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Morris...
— Rate adaptive multimedia streams offer significant system and client benefits over non-adaptive streams. These benefits come at the price of increased complexity in providin...