Abstract. We consider the question of protecting the privacy of customers buying digital goods. More specifically, our goal is to allow a buyer to purchase digital goods from a ve...
We investigate the properties of a multiagent system where each (distributed) agent locally perceives its environment. Upon perception of an unexpected event, each agent locally c...
Gauvain Bourgne, Gael Hette, Nicolas Maudet, Suzan...
We coiisider a situation where two parties, Alice and Bob, share a common secret string arid would like to mutually check their knowledge of that string. We describe a simple and e...
Today's data networks are surprisingly fragile and difficult to manage. We argue that the root of these problems lies in the complexity of the control and management planes--...
—Recent research in pervasive computing has shown that context-awareness and dynamic adaptation are fundamental requirements of mobile distributed applications. However, most app...