In a typical client-server scenario, a trusted server provides valuable services to a client, which runs remotely on an untrusted platform. Of the many security vulnerabilities th...
Mariano Ceccato, Paolo Tonella, Mila Dalla Preda, ...
Abstract. Current trends in software development show a move towards supporting autonomous components (agents). The accurate timing of interactions between such components is growi...
Today, the Web is increasingly used as a platform for distributed services, which transcend organizational boundaries to form federated applications. Consequently, there is a grow...
SOFIA (Artemis project: http://www.sofiaproject.eu/) focuses on answering the challenge of creating smart environments and its goal is to make information that resides in the phys...
This paper presents a CORBA-compliant middleware architecture that is more flexible and extensible compared to standard CORBA. The portable design of this architecture is easily in...