Mobile agent systems provide new perspectives for distributed e-commerce applications. Sea-of-Data (SoD) applications are those that need to process huge quantities of distributed...
Guillermo Navarro, Joan Borrell, Jose A. Ortega-Ru...
Ubiquitous computing uses a variety of information for which access needs to be controlled. For instance, a person’s current location is a sensitive piece of information, which ...
The security of content distribution is a critical issue that all the content providers have to treat seriously in order to guarantee their business. Emmanuel and Kankanhalli propo...
— Agent ownership is a difficult task that touches legal domain. Agent ownership implies that a specific person or organization (the owner) is responsible for the agent’s act...
Salvatore Vitabile, Giovanni Pilato, Vincenzo Cont...
A time-bound hierarchical key assignment scheme is a method to assign time-dependent encryption keys to a set of classes in a partially ordered hierarchy, in such a way that each ...
Alfredo De Santis, Anna Lisa Ferrara, Barbara Masu...