: Due to the ever increasing impacts of globalization, people will/have to work on data which is distributed all around the world [LKK+ 97]. Query processing on the corresponding d...
Web-based environments typically span interactions between humans and software services. The management and automatic calculation of trust are among the key challenges of the futur...
Referral networks are a kind of P2P system consisting of autonomous agents who seek, provide services, or refer other service providers. Key applications include service discovery...
This paper describes a system that supports high availability of data, until the data should be expunged, at which time it is impossible to recover the data. This design supports ...
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) offer communication over a shared wireless channel without any pre-existing infrastructure. Forming peer-to-peer security associations in MANETs i...
Johann van der Merwe, Dawoud S. Dawoud, Stephen Mc...