Distributed information systems for decision-support, logistics, and e-commerce involve coordination of autonomous information resources and clients according to specific domain in...
In this paper, we present a dynamically reconfigurable cache architecture using adaptive block allocation policy analyzed by means of simulation. Our main objectives are: to propo...
The need to securely share information on an ad-hoc basis between collaborating entities is increasingly becoming important. We propose a coalition based access control model (CBAC...
We consider a class of restless multi-armed bandit problems that arises in multi-channel opportunistic communications, where channels are modeled as independent and stochastically...
The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...