The present work aims to bring to discussion and to analysis, the texts of the 6th article of the 2001/29/EC Directive (22nd of May) and the 217th article of the Portuguese law 50...
The recent attack on Apple iTunes Digital Rights Management [17] has brought to light the usefulness of proxy re-encryption schemes for Digital Rights Management. It is known that...
The Cooperative Water Allocation Model (CWAM) is designed within a general mathematical programming framework for modeling equitable and efficient water allocation among competing...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a pervasive computing framework, named Physicalnet. Essentially, Physicalnet is a generic paradigm for managing and programmi...
Pascal Vicaire, Zhiheng Xie, Enamul Hoque, John A....
As we enter the new millennium, the approach to product development is evolving rapidly. Companies are in the process of creating a distributed design and manufacturing environmen...