—A key agreement protocol is a protocol whereby two or more communicating parties can agree on a key or exchange information over an open communication network in such a way that...
Service-based systems have many applications, such as collaborative research and development, e-business, health care, military applications, and homeland security. In dynamic ser...
Stephen S. Yau, Haishan Gong, Dazhi Huang, Wei Gao...
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the effective and efficient protection of critical information infrastructures has become an even more important issue. To enhance network surviv...
We present and analyze portable access control mechanisms for large data repositories, in that the customized access policies are stored on a portable device (e.g., a smart card). ...
Before the powerful agent programming paradigm can be adopted in commercial or industrial settings, a complete environment, similar to that for other programming languages, must b...
John R. Graham, Daniel McHugh, Michael Mersic, Fos...