Today, security is recognized as an absolute need in application development. Programming environments offer mechanisms and concepts allowing an easy integration of security mecha...
: The existence of peer-to-peer networks is due to benefits brought by decentralisation of control and distribution of resources. It is expected that the usage of such networks wi...
Andrew Roczniak, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik, Pierre L&...
Abstract. Team automata provide a framework for capturing notions like coordination, colon, and cooperation in distributed systems. They consist of an abstract specification of com...
Maurice H. ter Beek, Clarence A. Ellis, Jetty Klei...
We propose a simple and intuitive cost mechanism which assigns costs for the competitive usage of m resources by n selfish agents. Each agent has an individual demand; demands are...
Marios Mavronicolas, Panagiota N. Panagopoulou, Pa...
In computational grids, heterogeneous resources with different ownerships are dynamically available and distributed geographically. It is not realistic to build the resource alloc...