With the increasing complexity and dynamics of database and information systems, it becomes more and more di cult for administrative personnel to identify, specify and enforce sec...
Christina Yip Chung, Michael Gertz, Karl N. Levitt
Scheduling large amounts of tasks in distributed computing platforms composed of millions of nodes is a challenging goal, even more in a fully decentralized way and with low overhe...
In developing automated systems to recognize the emotional content of music, we are faced with a problem spanning two disparate domains: the space of human emotions and the acoust...
Erik M. Schmidt, Douglas Turnbull, Youngmoo E. Kim
The Grid is an emerging platform to support on-demand "virtual organisations" for coordinated resource sharing and problem solving on a global scale. The application thr...
Reputation is a fundamental instrument of partner selection. Developed within the domain of electronic auctions, reputation technology is being been imported into other applicatio...