1 This paper discusses the design and implementation details of MAST (Mobile Agent-based Security Tool), a new mobile agentbased network security approach. MAST has been designed t...
Marco M. Carvalho, Thomas B. Cowin, Niranjan Suri,...
— Online service provision is becoming increasingly decentralized as system designers pursue the benefits gained from utilizing nodes at the periphery of the network. However, d...
In this paper, we introduce a modified version of the IEEE 802.11a protocol and evaluate its performance. The new protocol is a combination of the standard Medium Access Control (...
In this paper, we present findings from a qualitative study of producers in a specific creative domain—online digital photography. We used social psychology and linguistic conce...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...