: The monolithic and inflexible nature of current middleware has made it difficult to deal with emerging technologies such as multimedia. Since these applications have timeliness c...
Abstract— In WiFi networks, mobile nodes compete for accessing a shared channel by means of a random access protocol called Distributed Coordination Function (DCF). Although this...
: Software capabilities are a very convenient means to protect co-operating applications. They allow access rights to be dynamically exchanged between mutually suspicious interacti...
The rapid progress in high-performance microprocessor design has made it di cult to adapt real-time scheduling results to new models of microprocessor hardware, thus leaving an un...
Trust is arguably the most crucial aspect of agent acceptability. At its simplest level, it can be characterized in terms of judgments that people make concerning three factors: an...
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Hyuckchul Jung, Shriniwas Kul...