— It is well-understood that increasing redundancy in a system generally improves the availability and dependability of the system. In server clusters, one important form of redu...
Mobile devices should allow users to exploit services anytime, without any place restriction and in a transparent way. The Bluetooth technology achieves this feature, by providing...
Vincenzo Auletta, Carlo Blundo, Emiliano De Cristo...
There can be no doubt that risk management is an important activity in the software engineering area. One proof of this is the large body of work existing in this area. However, w...
A t-private private information retrieval (PIR) scheme allows a user to retrieve the ith bit of an n-bit string x replicated among k servers, while any coalition of up to t server...
Abstract. Coordination is the process of managing the possible interactions between activities and processes; a mechanism to handle such interactions is known as a coordination reg...
Valentina A. M. Tamma, Chris van Aart, Thierry Moy...