Abstract. The increasing scale complexity, heterogeneity and dynamism of networks, systems and applications have made our computational and information infrastructure brittle, unma...
- Peer-to-peer (P2P) offers good solutions for many applications such as large data sharing and collaboration. Thus, it appears as a powerful paradigm to develop scalable distribut...
Stainam N. Brandao, Ricardo T. Silva, Jano M. Souz...
Firewalls typically filter network traffic at several different layers. At application layer, filtering is based on various security relevant information encapsulated into proto...
In many applications, such as decision support, negotiation, planning, scheduling, etc., one needs to express requirements that can only be partially satisfied. In order to expres...
Parallel application programmers and software engineers have a variety of paradigms at their disposal. Some of the tools include traditional environments such as Parallel Virtual ...