Publish/subscribe is emerging as an appropriate communication paradigm for large-scale, widely-distributed systems. In this paper, we describe our work on integrating active datab...
Desktop distributed computing allows companies to exploit the idle cycles on pervasive desktop PC systems to increase the available computing power by orders of magnitude (10x - 1...
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...
We propose the use of “selective blocking” by “blocker tags” as a way of protecting consumers from unwanted scanning of RFID tags attached to items they may be carrying or...
— Trust management, broadly intended as the ability to maintain belief relationship among entities, is recognized as a fundamental security challenge for autonomous and selforgan...