Abstract. Mobile-agent systems must address three security issues: protecting an individual machine, protecting a group of machines, and protecting an agent. In this chapter, we di...
Robert S. Gray, David Kotz, George Cybenko, Daniel...
Nowadays, the vast volume of collected digital data obliges us to employ processing methods like pattern recognition and data mining in order to reduce the complexity of data manag...
Ilaria Bartolini, Elisa Bertino, Barbara Catania, ...
This tutorial presents an overview of the data management issues faced by computer games today. While many games do not use databases directly, they still have to process large am...
Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Christoph Koch, B...
The one issue that unites almost all approaches to distributed computing is the need to know whether certain components in the system have failed or are otherwise unavailable. Whe...
: Today, innovation networks are economically and technologically accessible [VBE04]; however, managers and members of such organizations notice that success and performance are no...